Yes, great idea, toss the past, pulp the books and ignore everything that can't be viewed on a screen...
whoops, there go 30 or 40 art/art history books, quick duck, there's a bunch of extra large format history/military history books going out (try sensibly looking at an A3 detail map covering a major battle on a screen - it needs looking at as a whole rather than zoom in/out scroll...) and as for that Gutenberg Bible... but never mind who needs that boring old stuff from before the 21st century...
Glad that not all the world concurs with your personal opinion and narrow world view...
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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I quite disagree. I have a field guide that I use for identifiying flowers in my neighborhood and I have them in electronic form only. I find that my blackberry is much more portable then any field guide and is much better at rendering the photos of the flowers that I see then the dead wood book is. In addition my purchase of the field guide includes updates and future editions, not something the dead wood would offer. Coffee table books, don't see the need. Photo albums, I have a digital photo frame.
Don't really see the need for printed or dead wood books in modern society. Personal opinion - we as a society are far to anchored in the past, cut ties with the past and full speed to the 22nd century warp factor 4.
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