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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
According to Gary Frost, the University of Iowa's book conservation specialist, “The pbook (the 'physical book' as opposed to the ebook) will eventually become an object of curiosity to be looked at in a glass case. “ What a sobering thought.
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We've been there before. One king of France was considered wealthy because he had a large library ( some 24 Volumes) and in more recent past centuries (even with pbooks becoming cheaper due to Gutenberg's work on the printing press) a book collection was a status symbol. Just having a bookcase or five with books on it was just as impressive as having an automobile was. Never mind that often said collection wasn't read. I remember in fact hearing of someone buying a collection of books some 1 or 2 centuries old at an estate sale and finding that many of them had pages that were still uncut (they'd never been read).