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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Do we need our local bookshops and should we try to support them, or have they simply outlived their usefulness? What do you think?
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+ 1 in favour of continuing to support bookstores and paper books
+ 1 in favour of public libraries carrying both the paper and ebook versions of all the books that they (the library) carry.
I will continue to buy the paper book versions of any text books that I require because an ebook just can't be manipulated the same way half as efficiently as a textbook with respect to marking text, writing in the margins and flipping between pages etc.
Also, books that I purchase for their pictures/drawings etc - definitely paper books only. Think art books, design and architecture styles etc. Ebooks can not do those books justice.