[The E]

If someone's punching you in the face hard enough to shatter something like a glasses lens, I feel like you probably have bigger problems to worry about.

And you could always, y'know, not get punched in the face.

To elaborate: If you get hit by something powerful enough to shatter the lenses, then that hit was also powerful enough to break the frame and drive the lenses hard enough into your skull that they shatter there. Picking a fight with someone or something that strong is probably not a wise move.

[Janos]

If someone's punching you in the face hard enough to shatter something like a glasses lens, I feel like you probably have bigger problems to worry about.

And you could always, y'know, not get punched in the face.

To elaborate: If you get hit by something powerful enough to shatter the lenses, then that hit was also powerful enough to break the frame and drive the lenses hard enough into your skull that they shatter there. Picking a fight with someone or something that strong is probably not a wise move.

i regularly pick up fights with superman

[redsniper]

Eyeglass lenses are usually made of plastic anyways. You have to ask for glass lenses specifically, at least at the eye clinic where I worked.

Also, if you wore your glasses you might see the punch coming.

[Narvi]

i spent that entire paragraph without capitalization or punctuation

and you complain about the wrong word in the wrong place

well played, sir

No capitalization doesn't change the meaning of what you're saying, and with the kind of sentences you used no punctuation didn't have an impact either. But "where" instead of "wear" made me double back and rage.

Anyway, I dislike reading literature on the computer, as with many other people. For one, my monitor is incapable of having a better refresh rate, and that hurts my eyes. Two, you can't exactly carry my computer around with the same convenience as a book. Say I get a laptop or a netbook for portability with a screen that's easy on the eyes. There's a third problem: Battery life. Books don't run out of battery power, but laptops and netbooks do, and all too quickly I'm afraid.

Granted, if all three of these problems were solved, I'd love it. Kindle you say? If I was going to buy something that expensive, I'd just screw the reading issue and buy a netbook.

For me, books win, for now. My Cowon S9 has the ability to display textfiles, but I only use that to read short stories. Even then, the screen chews up a lot of the battery life.

Bah, that was the only error which wasn't deliberate.

Anyway, you're reading a forum, so you obviously enjoy it without crawling up and crying.

As I said, short stories and serial novellas have their future in the Internet; you don't spend much time reading them compared to a book, so you can enjoy them without feeling annoyed at the limitations of a computerspace.