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Originally Posted by SolRaven
... super quick and clean car wins hands down any day of the week. ...
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As an engineer, I shall not begin the discussion of the environmental catastrophe the electric car is. (As opposed to everyones belief, it pollutes way more than a modern combustion engine car).
Anyway, that aside, and back to topic:
I will probably *never* give up paper books completely.
Yes, I'm a gadget freak and I remember as a little boy 30-35 years ago I had a "vision" and practically constructed the ebook reader. My dream then, was having the complete series of
the Hardy Boys by the pen name Franklin W. Dixon in one "book". (Maybe, out of nostalgia I should start to reread the 40 some books stored in my parents house library)
Back to books; an ebook reader ("lesebrett") would probably not in a foreeable (or immediate) future become a foldout A2 size weather proof atlas. So, my Wil Tirion Star Atlas still beats the ebook reader by far, out in the field on astronomy observing.
So, I choose the best of both worlds. It will be a complete new world for me, not needing to tonne down my hand luggage on longhaul flights (I'm a sailor in international trade by profession), but still be able to choose among 119 books.
And yet again, I still like the really big books/atlases/publications that I can spread out over "half my" living room floor.
