the thought scares me personally, how interpersonal and away from tactile experience we are getting as a western society.
I’m not going to answer this question based on money basis.It is about pure satisfaction.
Apart from the story itself,there are a lot of things to like in a book.The fonts,the smell of the paper,the thrill you get,the desire to finish the book even when you see it is larger(Quote:Think of Harry Potter here or LOTR).
And added to the fact is that with a book,you can absolutely use it to your own desire and satisfaction.
The secret peek in it gives,the sweet memories when you reread a book,and when a book is good and when you see it being lengthier the cajoling you do to yourself(just another one or two chapters and I’ll be off to work or sleep) in order to get more of it….
And E-Books might cause harm to your eyes,unlike printed books.And there is the fact that you might not get the pace of the book just reading it electronically.Because you will get tired of looking into a screen and the dragging or the usage of cursor after some time(especially with a story with a great pace,you’ll think that the e-book is slowing your pace down).Things like that happened to me.
Nope.I never think E-books can replace printed books.At-least not to me.
Probably not, because not all people could afford E-books, and some just hate technology. If that were to happen, it wouldn’t be anytime soon.
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Probably.
I’m not sure what whether you’re reading a book from a 6*4 pile of paper or a 6*4 electronic device has to do with being interpersonal or tactile experiences.
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NEVER!
I dislike e-books. They make my eyes hurt. And it’s a waste of electricity.
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I’m not going to answer this question based on money basis.It is about pure satisfaction.
Apart from the story itself,there are a lot of things to like in a book.The fonts,the smell of the paper,the thrill you get,the desire to finish the book even when you see it is larger(Quote:Think of Harry Potter here or LOTR).
And added to the fact is that with a book,you can absolutely use it to your own desire and satisfaction.
The secret peek in it gives,the sweet memories when you reread a book,and when a book is good and when you see it being lengthier the cajoling you do to yourself(just another one or two chapters and I’ll be off to work or sleep) in order to get more of it….
And E-Books might cause harm to your eyes,unlike printed books.And there is the fact that you might not get the pace of the book just reading it electronically.Because you will get tired of looking into a screen and the dragging or the usage of cursor after some time(especially with a story with a great pace,you’ll think that the e-book is slowing your pace down).Things like that happened to me.
Nope.I never think E-books can replace printed books.At-least not to me.
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As sad as it sounds, most likely.
I wish e-Books wouldn’t replace printed books, because holding a printed book in my hands fills me with excitement. It’s not just the story told within the book, it’s the book itself - the story always feels so much more alive when you’re holding the book in your hand, in my opinion.
However, I doubt that people will still be reading traditional paper books in fifty years or so. Things move on pretty quickly. Take CDs for example - they are on the way out because of iPods and such.
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not in my house, there is always the possibility of a power outage and then where would I be?
candles work fine for reading
and people who love books love them for more than just the words on the page
don’t worry, be happy, they said the same thing about radio and television
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no because they will never replace the beauty of a printed book that you can curl up with infront of the fire with.
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i hope not…
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Dedicated ebook readers like the Kindle and the nook (Who came up with that name? That’s really going to confuse search engines for a while.) have screens that are more like paper to read from. They don’t have a backlight, so there isn’t a light shining into your eyes the whole time you’re reading. This also means you can’t read them in the dark.
Ebooks have the potential to be cheaper than paper books - they don’t have to be printed, they don’t have to be stored in a warehouse, and it costs next to nothing to send them to the customer. Amazon seem to be trying to recover their investment in the Kindle at the moment, though, which means their ebooks are priced only a little below the paperback editions.
Ebooks also offer the prospect that a book need never go out of print - the cost of keeping a book on a server somewhere in case someone wants to buy it is less than what you would have to pay a person for the time it takes to issue the commands to delete it. But you can be sure that the accountants and the marketing drones will want to play the "bestseller" game, and will make it harder than necessary to buy something that hasn’t sold more than, say, a thousand copies in the last year.
Ebooks might allow more new writers to break into the market and - perhaps - make a decent living from it. Amazon is doing this already, with self-publishing available on the Kindle. But we need some sort of filtering and/or rating mechanism to allow readers to find the good stuff without having to wade through all the rubbish that usually clogs up a forum that has no entry restrictions.
I will probably buy an ebook reader at some point, but I’m waiting for the bookshops and the publishers to realise that DRM (digital rights management, AKA digital restrictions management) isn’t going to work. It didn’t work for music. I won’t buy a book that I can’t give away or sell or lend to a friend. I definitely won’t buy a book that the shop can take away from me, if they realise they weren’t allowed to sell it to me, or just because they feel like it. (How fitting that it should happen with an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four.) I’m also waiting for the industry to agree on a standard format. It’s ridiculous that some books are available on the Kindle and not on the nook, and vice versa. It’s also ridiculous that the customer should have to choose the right format for their ebook reader (and have to worry about getting the wrong one and not being able to get a refund).
Anyway, after all that, I haven’t answered the question, so… yes, ebooks will eventually replace printed books for most people, the same way that downloaded music is replacing CDs, but it will be a slow process that takes longer than anybody expects.
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I think it will be a very slow process if they do, which is questionable.
Personally, my beef with ebooks is more to do with people’s claims that they will be more environmentally sustainable than printed books. I really disagree. I feel that books are the least of our worries when it comes to environmentally friendly commodities due to the fact that they are recyclable, biodegradable, tradable and resellable.
I’m particularly wary about ebooks if, as a technology, they end up being just as disposable as cell phones, ipods and computers. What happens if you drop your ebook, or get it wet or it just stops working. It’s not like anyone can just open it up and fix it the way you can repair a torn book.
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