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I wonder if historians will someday uncover the annotations in people's ebooks, because that's all digital era readers will leave behind.
by nsxwolf 12y ago
I wonder if historians will someday uncover the annotations in people's ebooks, because that's all digital era readers will leave behind.
- themodelplumber 12y agoNah. With my "no screens after 10" rule I'm still swimming in physical books, usually with receipts in them.
- logfromblammo 12y agoBooksellers should just print the receipts on an actual bookmark. I can't stand touching that thermal paper every time I start, end, or interrupt a reading session.
- partisan 12y agoI loved this article. I showed the picture of the cat prints to my wife. We both agreed that cats have always been jerks. Our cat somehow manages to walk all over my laptop and my wife's iPad, usually with some impact to what we are doing. Sadly those moments won't be captured anywhere.
- ajuc 12y ago> Sadly those moments won't be captured anywhere. Now they are.
- adrianN 12y agoI can see the titles already "Junk Data not so 'junk' after all" "What many scientists believed to be areas of corrupt data in early 20th century 'e-books' turns out to be vital to our understanding of that period, from which so much was lost to proprietary formats and 'Digital Rights Management'. A group at the Luna City University for the first time managed to decode parts of ancient e-books and found them to contain notes and scribbles from the readers..."