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I guess that was my motivation to ask the question. :) It seems everyone around me (in the developed world) is using a tablet or an iPad or a laptop to read a

I guess that was my motivation to ask the question. :) It seems everyone around me (in the developed world) is using a tablet or an iPad or a laptop to read a document, with very little work printed out. I would argue that quite a few government forms for newly created agencies and even tax havens have migrated from plain PDF to forms with embedded JS, for buttons, etc. And with each passing year, books seem to have lesser impact in my life as well as that of my peers - most reading is done on a very portable tablet or desktop. Most reading that is done with a paperback is casual and light. And of course, reading seems to be a dying habit these days.

warrenm 4y ago
>And with each passing year, books seem to have lesser impact in my life as well as that of my peers...reading seems to be a dying habit these days. So sad to hear you and your peers aren't spending reading time with physical copies more! I read more on a screen than physical books/papers/magazines, but appreciate physical copies more with every passing day ...the ability to hand something to someone and tell them "you should read this" is amazing! As is the ability to give/sell what I no longer want ... and to buy what isn't available electronically Electronic resources are all well and good ... but they lack permanence For lots of stuff, that's fine But for something you want/expect to last more than a few hours, week, or years, it's not I'd much rather augment a physical book with electronic resources (be it a website, QR-linked video, AR, or something not yet invented) than to rely exclusively on ethereal data whose formats are superceded on a frequent basis