> I’ve never met a person saying they hate books and wish they were white on black.

Wow. This is the most insightful statement I've read today.

It's finally clicked [U+2014] why I prefer e-ink to hardback, in spite of the alluring texture of plup across fingers.

It's because it should've been white-on-black, not black-on-white. It makes so much intuitive sense.