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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
People will read articles in their web browser, but few would want to read books in their browsers. E-books have been around for some time, but few wanted to read them until the advent of e-readers, people didn't want to read books on their computer screens.
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I was planning on mentioning the add-ons, but from later posts it seems that you are aware of them. So why do you pretend that they don't exist in this post?
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Originally Posted by Phogg
FAIL.
Every single one of those is also on site storage, and not subject to loss of access if there is a problem in another location.
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I wasn't saying that the internet is exactly like a book, I was just saying that they are both methods of data distribution. And while loss of access is a problem now in some places, that doesn't happen everywhere, and it doesn't happen if you have 3G. First world countries are moving towards complete coverage anyway.
However you do bring a good point. The reason why browser reading didn't take off in the 90's was probably linked to the limited internet access.