Poll--Is it Time to Replace the Book?

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Should Ereaders Replace Books:

Yes. The time has come!
4
3%
Not right now, but in a few years they should
14
12%
No, never!
103
85%
 
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I don't think that books need to be replaced but the idea of how we read needs to be broadened to include e-readers as a good source of reading.
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I would have never given in to the "e-book" if my mother had not given me a Nexus tablet. It is nice to have many classics free at your fingertips, books delivered automatically, and discounts on some books. However, I do not think they should replace the real thing. There is something about holding a book, that paper made world that you can dive into. Books do not need batteries, they never crash or run out of storage or get lost or accidently deleted. A book is a tangible thing and something I adore. Yes I use the e-reader, but if I can get the book itself (especially informative/nonfiction or books that go to series I already have in book form) then I do.
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I voted for No Never even though I almost always read an ebook. Not everyone can afford an ebook reader or a tablet or ipad. But they might be able to afford just a book so why make it unreachable for them?
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Books should never be replaced. I've never used a Kindle, or purchased an eBook ever. With paperbacks, you have the feel of the firm spine, the turn of every crisp page, and best of all, the scent of a new book. All my friends at school, that do read, use e-readers or listen to audio books. I don't know if I could stand that.
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I don't think we should ever eliminate books but I do think we should use ereaders more often. There is no reason for so many trees to be wasted for so many books to be published and then never bought. I still believe that it's important to have printed books but they should be published in smaller numbers to waste less. I don't think they should be eliminated because if a natural disaster or unnatural one ever caused loss of power or inability to use electronic devices we would be screwed. Could you imagine what it would be like to have no written history or ways of learning? We'd have to start from scratch and image everything that would be lost.
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I am not sure that books should be entirely fazed out. There are reasons to and reasons not to. This is a pretty hard question to answer. There are benefits to reading an actual book and benefits to having an e-reader. Such as, books take up allot of room while e-readers are compact and you can carry literally hundreds if not thousands of books on it. E-readers are not as bulky as a book especially a hardcover book.
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I think most of the problem is that we have looked at this as an either/or situation: either we can have paper or digital. I think that both have their place. For a person who grew up considering the smell of an old book to be intoxicating, I cannot see the way when they will be totally replaced by digital versions. I also am a person who loved to mark his books, usually with a highlighter. While this can be done on e-readers, it just doesn't feel the same.

However, having used a Kindle for the past couple of years and learning to love it, I find that it definitely has a place in the book lover's arsenal: if nothing else, it is so much more portable than trying to lug around a couple of hundred books.
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Post by calebsummers »

I have a number of ebooks that I have written, but I will never not read the good old paperback. There is something about holding in your hands the texture of a book. It could never be the same reading it on an electronic device.
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I don't think so. There are still some things I enjoying reading the old fashioned way. Namely textbooks and guides. I enjoy this because up until this point no e-reader has sufficiently allowed me to flip fast enough between reference pages. With time and the production of faster processors this may become so, but until then, no. Multiviewing would be nice. I see this more likely on an iPad or other such high-end tablet.

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I hope books are never replaced completely by e-readers. Heaven forbid the power goes out! At least I can still read a "regular" book by candlelight or a flashlight! Power's out and the battery dies on the Kindle, and I'm toast without a regular book to read!
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Nope, never.
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now way. A lot of people, including myself, don't like to read on ebook readers. And I think that it's better to have something in hard print your reader could break or crash and you wouldn't have the book anymore. If I read a book that I really love I want to keep it because it means something to me.
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Post by sonnshinne »

Oh no way should we get rid of books! E-books are great but not everyone has an e-reader. Not only that but books have survived through time! What would guarantee that an e-book wouldn't be lost or forgotten with everything else already floating through the cyber world?
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I love the convenience of my Kindle. So many books available with a click of a button. But I still read as many paperbacks and hardbacks as I do the electronic ones. You cannot beat the feel and smell of a real book.
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No I do not think the ebooks should replace hard copy books. Ebook readers do make it more advantageous to read many books without the storage annoyance of having hard or paperback books. Any large book collection takes up alot of space in one's home. One disadvantage to ebook readers is that you cant resell the books when you finish reading them. You can share them depending on the type of reader you have. But book trading clubs used to be a common place retail store but are now hard to find. My mother loved to go to Cape Girardeau to buy books to trade with friends. I ended up with three boxes of books after she died. She got the books for change. It took me awhile to learn how to use an ereader for the many online courses that I took. I always felt cheated not having an actual book in my hands and found it very hard to take Word 2010 tests because I could not refer to the page before taking the test. It made it harder to do assignments because I could not have the page open and Word at the same time. Donna Taylor
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