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Well said, but I can't think of a bigger threat for books than TV and Radio for us kids of the 60ies and 70ies. At least that's what my parents feared.
Today I also feel symptoms of getting harder into immersed reading as most of my reading is short bits of hyperlinked information. So there is competition between media for slices of our time and extensive use of one may degrade our wish of using another.
But one medium may also promote another one. Some of you may remember the beautiful illustrated text adventure "Wonderland" by Magnetic Scrolls which is another type of interactive Alice which took a lot of my time while I had not read the book yet and which highly motivated me to do so.
So I think that programmers will probably kill mass market paper books but not ebooks.
Greetings, Hansl
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