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Originally Posted by .rousium
I have a kindle and I adore it. I read more then I ever did. I respect the concern for books omg books. But it's inevitable. People used to buy cd's too. Now we have mp3s. Also, I like the fact that it's far more environmentally friendly. More e-readers means less paper for making said books. |
It's only inevitable if people have that mindset. It's people with this idea that everything should be digital and invisible that are ruining it. I'm perfectly fine with
copies of books being available digitally, but this either/or thought process has to stop or we'll be left with absolutely nothing.
Digital data doesn't survive. IN a hundred years, nothing that exists now will still exist. Yeah, you won't either, but what about the legacy of your generation for the future? There will be no documentation, no artifacts, nothing. If people continue thinking that the absence of actual, physical properties is an "inevitable" end, then this part of history will not exist for posterity in the future.
The problem is, people just don't think about the future. They don't think about what will happen when this technology becomes obsolete, and you find yourself without software updates or support and the proud owner of what is essentially a useless slab of plastic and silicon.
Yeah, make digital copies of books - but just because one exists, why do the real books have to cease to exist? It's not logical to replace something with nothing.