Prints are dying, Digital is taking over.
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- i_monk0
When was the last time you felt the need to back up your books? Probably never. Because, short of a house fire, there won't be a problem 'accessing' them years from now.
Until digital storage media are as reliable as paper, print is necessary.
- eating_tv0
I love the look and feel of books. But I hate moving them (if I move house) and I hardly ever read a book twice... if ever. I'm thinking of donating most of my books to some place or someone.
- Peter0
As reliable as paper?
There's no need to backup digital books. Fireproof storage and such aside: you can always re-download.
Note on reliability: consider how many books, family photos and whatnot you would have to lug out of the possibility of that burning building. What more: paper fades.
- re-download, pay again. If the license is still available. In a format compatible with your iKindle.i_monk
- Burn: pay again. If the book is not out of print.Peter
- Different format...if text and photos isn't recoverable or convertible on future devices - Ill be damn.Peter
- More reliability: your books, photos come with you. Either in the device or on a cloudserver.Peter
- I refuse to pay for the same content on different formats, or to access stuff I "own".i_monk
- You mean like DVD, Bluray and VHS?DrBombay
- Or do you mean like cassette, vinyl and CD?DrBombay
- You think I own any Blurays? Tape/CD dupes? I don't.i_monk
- non0
"middle of the pack" printed material is going away, wich is good. We'll be left with only quality printed stuff and the rest will be in digital format.
The same thing that is happening with the music distribution industry. The CD is obsolete now. Nothing comes close to the perfection of a vinyl LP and the practicity of an mp3.
- nb0
- DrBombay0
Books, magazines and newspapers are going to become luxury items in the future. Here is a great article by Jeff Jarvis on why the book is dead http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/…
- honestIy0
Boeing still warehouses a copy of every part they design(ed), contracts, etc.
- moIdero0
i read books via the iPad, but your extremely limited on what books you can buy on Itunes so I still read real books.
- maikel0
shouldn't this be part of first world problems?
- cjfclarence0
Sometimes I feel more real reading paper books because it is a physical BOOK. some how Ipad can simulate them in a more interesting way but still it is not paper, cant really feel the texture and the scent of it...
- akrok0
- < this baby is 2 years old. :-Dakrok
- and still way ahead of its time!Amicus
- hahah. :-)akrokdesign
- scarabin0
i feel like an ipad/kindle, whatever is going to do more harm to the environment (creating unrecyclable toxic materials, batteries, plastic waste, etc) than the biggest stack of books, which will degrade naturally and are made from a renewable resource.
fuck the "digital revolution".
- scarabin0
in the end it's about what's cheaper.
we're doing digital movie posters now, which made a lot of people looking to the future really wet but it's ultimately more expensive putting a wall full of plasma TVs in a theater up than some pieces of paper.
- akrok0
there is way easier to find information then ever. but are kids smarter today then let say, 10-15 years ago?
- jetSkii0
in America we'll also still and need to use paper, but for things such as packaging consumer goods to toilet paper to wipe.