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Umm, until the Singularity arrives, humans are physical tactile beings. Why do you think people got attached to vinyl records in a way they never did with CDs. Nobody misses CDs, except the recording industry. Ironically, by putting music a more compact and convenient form, the industry desentimentalized music ownership and collection and devalued their own product. After that came mp3 and napster and music became content. You don't even own music now, you just license it. You can't exactly lovingly flip through your iTunes collection the way you do a box of old records.
How exactly do you pass down a beloved book with your ereader? Son, today you're a man. Here's a copy of the book your grandfather gave me. Click here to download. Not quite the same, is it?
It's not nostalgia or nuttiness, it's called being human.
Bgw, I own both an iPad and a k3, so don't bother branding me a Luddite.
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