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At some point. That point is a long long way away.
by spikeagally 4y ago
At some point. That point is a long long way away.
- s3p 4y agoDifference of opinion. Others may believe that point is today.
- spikeagally 4y agoThey’d be wrong. It’s not opinion. Paper books are clearly not anachronistic currently.
- tim333 4y ago"Print books out-sell eBooks 4-to-1" - recent data.
- lostmsu 4y agoIn numbers or in revenue?
- tim333 4y agoNot sure. Quote was from https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statistics/ https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statist...
- gnicholas 4y agoTrue. But piracy is a big issue, and it exclusively happens digitally. I wonder what the numbers would look like if you factored in pirated ebooks/etextbooks.
- lostmsu 4y agoAre you sure? There's an entire generation of people born after 2000 who probably read more electronic books than physical ones.
- spikeagally 4y agoI don’t have any data to back it up but I doubt that. Schools are still mostly using paper text books. And I reckon school libraries are still the main source of books for kids (who typically don’t have money to buy books). Family members who want to buy you a book as a gift, will do that on paper as gifting ebooks is trickier and less personal. To be honest, I would bet that the if younger demographics are reading less paper books it’s because they’re reading less generally rather than switching to digital.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoCollege students here are almost all using PDFs on their laptops. Especially engineering. Tried conducting an open book test this year and was met with consternation. Had to go with an open laptop test instead.
- petilon 4y agoUser Interface that is easy to imagine as a physical object is easier to figure out. It doesn't matter if the user is familiar with the physical object being emulated on the screen. Because laws of physics are still applicable even if you haven't seen such a physical object in real life. The human mind is always building models in our minds, based on observations of how things look and work, and then using those models to predict behaviors of things that we are yet to explore. For this to work well, appearance has to imply behavior. Instead of starting with a clean slate each time it would be helpful if we can leverage the mental models we have already built of the physical world. This is where skeuomorphism is helpful.
- defaulter4now 4y agoThat's a cheap assumption without any data to back it up. What does the 3D animation cost in terms of CPU power?