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Originally Posted by Barty
It's pretty remarkable when you think about it. Ebook readers are pretty primitive compared to other gadgets, yet they've already surpassed the venerable book (novels, anyway) for most people here.
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It's not that unprecedented a change. Before books, there were scrolls. That sewn binding came in *very* handy, and once codices came along pretty much everyone switched over. Not sure what there was before scrolls. Stone tablets, maybe?