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Originally Posted by BooksForABuck
Okay, what's the deal with 'real books,' here.
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Can't speak for everyone -- especially when my wife is listening -- but I use the term "real" as tongue-in-cheek, meaning "the current popular method". This a sarcastic view of the human tendency to resist change and accept only what already exists as "real".
To me, "real books" is merely poking fun at the silly notion that everything will remain as it always has been. Of course, that's silly in itself, since very few things have remained the same as they were when they began.
Otherwise, we would still be driving Model T's.
No, wait, we would still be riding in wagons.
No, wait, we would still be riding horses.
No, wait, we would still be walking everywhere.
No, wait, we would still be swimming in the primordial ooze.
No, wait, we still are -- we just renamed it "politics".