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Minus any (totally valid) concerns about DRM, I find eBooks to be completely superior to their dead tree versions. As a heavy reader the benefits are enormous:

Minus any (totally valid) concerns about DRM, I find eBooks to be completely superior to their dead tree versions. As a heavy reader the benefits are enormous: My kindle weighs less than a pound making reading large books a snap I haven't purchased a paper book since I got the kindle and I'm always pairing down my collection, yet still moving my paper books to a new apartment is an incredibly heavy task A few people have pointed out that "eReaders can hold thousands of books" is silly, until your on a vacation and you finish your current book I guess I lack the sentimentality of proudly displaying a full bookshelf of my "trophies" with their creased spines. No one seems to lament the sentimentality of the passing of the VHS...

Theodores 13y ago
When I was a child I felt odd when visiting a friend's house if there were no books on the shelves, as well as the books being missing I wondered if their education was missing. I felt much happier in places where the walls were lined with books. Particularly notable were the places where video cassettes adorned the walls, I never really knew what to make of that - did they just watch the TV screen all day? Nowadays I don't have books on shelves at all, whatsoever, under any circumstances. The books I have to buy because they are not available in a digital format tend to be really good and I end up giving them away, for them to not need to be returned. I really do not see a long term future for printed books, there is no need for them, except in museum-libraries. What would be cool is if you could buy books for people in a digital format on a 'sale or return basis'. They would get the book from you, then, if they actually read past the first few pages, your account get charged. In this way you could give out books to people for birthdays, Christmas and so on without them feeling obliged to read through whatever it is that you have sent them. Equally you could be more generous with gifting as there would be a fair likelihood that some of the books gifted would not be read.
c23gooey 13y ago
VHS was replaced with DVD and Blu-Ray both of which have a similar (if not thinner) physical presence. You are still able to proudly display your movie collection if thats what you want.

Theodores 13y ago

When I was a child I felt odd when visiting a friend's house if there were no books on the shelves, as well as the books being missing I wondered if their education was missing. I felt much happier in places where the walls were lined with books. Particularly notable were the places where video cassettes adorned the walls, I never really knew what to make of that - did they just watch the TV screen all day? Nowadays I don't have books on shelves at all, whatsoever, under any circumstances. The books I have to buy because they are not available in a digital format tend to be really good and I end up giving them away, for them to not need to be returned. I really do not see a long term future for printed books, there is no need for them, except in museum-libraries. What would be cool is if you could buy books for people in a digital format on a 'sale or return basis'. They would get the book from you, then, if they actually read past the first few pages, your account get charged. In this way you could give out books to people for birthdays, Christmas and so on without them feeling obliged to read through whatever it is that you have sent them. Equally you could be more generous with gifting as there would be a fair likelihood that some of the books gifted would not be read.

c23gooey 13y ago

VHS was replaced with DVD and Blu-Ray both of which have a similar (if not thinner) physical presence. You are still able to proudly display your movie collection if thats what you want.