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Originally Posted by xg4bx
Maybe 5% ebook at most, the novelty has pretty much worn off for me.
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I'm sure that many people had the same opinion of Television and radio before that when they 1st became readily available, not to mention the movies. My dad told me that when my (paternal) grandfather bought their 1st TV set back in the 1950's my grandmother said something of the sort of "why did you want to buy that thing for?" She did try cable TV for a short while when I was a kid, but never really took to it, and settled for just those stations she could get via antenna for the most part. Now of course she'd have no choice as everything is going digital as far as TV. While paper books won't vanish overnight I can well imagine that they will go more and more to ebooks over time. I can remember when stores sold LP records and cassette tapes. Then the CD came along and now the Mp3 file. The same thing happened with movies. First the reel of film, then VHS tapes then even they were phased out and replaced by DVD's. The media changes, but the information stays the same.