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    first comment is a spot on.
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    We're building our library of Alexandria.

    Call me ludite but there's something facinating about holding a book in your hands. Granted, school text book may not qualify but I have several books from 1800's, including Robin Hood, Shakespeare among other classics. These fine objects have a feel, smell, binding, and it is magical. I adore books and dread the day when we as a society will flip entirely to digital format.

    Already, most of the books made today are unattractive, disposable, recyclable objects made to be single use. Today's youth is trained to use digital media and holding a book instead of a mouse and keyboard seems foreign and un-natural to them.

    I grew up in a house that had a massive library of old books and I recall the smell of paper that filled the room, the artful and hand-crafted lithography, and all other things that made books magical. Today's society is growing up too A.D.D. to appreciate it. No one wants to bother with linear structure of the book: "give me hypertext, give me search capability, give me flash, give me rich media, keep my intrest for longer than 30 seconds, jump into action from first paragraph, keep my characters as shallow and 2-dimensional as... me!"

    Sorry, this is not an advancement - we're setting ourselves up for intellectual extinction. Should something happen to our precious electricity, all this gadgetry will be totally useless and lost...

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    • Why is the medium cause for intellectual extinction? Think, dammet. Use said intellectualism.Peter
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