Most people prob just didnt bother votingB-fly wrote:I'm happy to see that nobody has voted for replacing the book
Poll--Is it Time to Replace the Book?
- StephenKingman
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- keep.walking
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Ereaders aren't meant to replace the paper books, they are just an alternative way to reading. They came to add another option to readers, not to substitute the existing option.
Although they have their advantages, the feeling on turning pages when reading paper books is unreplaceable.
Also, having a shelf full of books is way more satisfatory than having a hard disk full of data books. XD
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Be used for a set in the next Dan Brown movie?ParanoidIdealDodo wrote:Nothing can replace the reading experience only a book can provide. I love thumbing through pages. Beside...what will happen to the libraries among others?
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I personally cannot see any big advantage to paper books, except for cover art, maps or other graphic and color features, but I am sure that the next generations of e-readers will have these features too. The smell of old books gives me a headache and I don't like the touch of old paper.
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lol...nice one...StephenKingman wrote:Be used for a set in the next Dan Brown movie?ParanoidIdealDodo wrote:Nothing can replace the reading experience only a book can provide. I love thumbing through pages. Beside...what will happen to the libraries among others?
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So old books have a bad smell, eh? Maybe they cause cancer!Elphaba wrote:After using an e-reader for a couple of years I can't go back... Well I can if I have no choice and I cannot get the ebook version of a book I really want to read. It is so uncomfortable! I keep double-clicking the words I don't understand trying to open the dictionary
I personally cannot see any big advantage to paper books, except for cover art, maps or other graphic and color features, but I am sure that the next generations of e-readers will have these features too. The smell of old books gives me a headache and I don't like the touch of old paper.
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By contrast, a paper book doesn't need an electrical power source. One can read by candlelight or strong moonlight, at the least.
Also, not everyone is so attuned to the latest computerized gadgets; so an E-reader wouldn't be for them. Paper books will be around a long, long time, I believe.
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An excellent point there about the battery Michael, and one i haven't considered before. You are right- anything electronic is not 100% reliable and i for one would hate to be in the middle of a chapter only to get a Low Battery warningLonestar wrote:I see E-readers as an interesting adjunct to paper books, but there is the issue of technology, as in when/how it can fail. For me, it'd be disheartening for an E-reader to crash [due to battery- or operating-system failure, for example] when in the middle of a good read.
By contrast, a paper book doesn't need an electrical power source. One can read by candlelight or strong moonlight, at the least.
Also, not everyone is so attuned to the latest computerized gadgets; so an E-reader wouldn't be for them. Paper books will be around a long, long time, I believe.
And also, E-Readers would not appeal to a lot of older people who are simply too set in their ways to learn the basics of Kindle etc and would prefer to sit down by the fire and have a good read like they have been doing all their lives. And i dont mean old as in 70 or 80 i mean people in their 40s and 50s who have a lot more reading left, not to mention income to keep book sales buoyant, in their lives. Certainly i cannot see paper being replaced for generations to come.
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