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Originally Posted by Mivo
It's probably just futile fretting over essentially nothing, though.
I agree with you, but twenty years ago I couldn't possibly predict that today I would do most of my reading on a small device that holds thousands of books, has a lit, non-flickering touch screen (  ) and that needs to be recharged only once every few weeks, and that I can load up with new books (that I bought from a store thousands of miles away and that were delivered instantaneously) wirelessly in nearly no time at all. That was something straight out of a scifi novel.
Twenty years is a long time (which feels shorter the older you get), and chances are that our reading habits in two decades will be quite different from what they are now, perhaps in yet unimaginable ways. (I also had a lot of "stuff" twenty years ago that was very important to me and that I collected and organized, and thought I would keep forever -- until it eventually was deleted or thrown out, but that's a different topic, perhaps.)
But there will be books, and there won't be a shortage of stuff to read. Perhaps that is all that really matters. |
Twenty years ago I was 10, and I was reading books that my parents and my grandparents had read when they were children. And while SF predicted some aspects of the current digital reading it was always free access like a universal library, not the pay-full-price-but-don't-own situation that we have.
I'm going to stick to paper for the majority of my purchases.