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Originally Posted by Quexos
I did the same, went into a bookstore and my feelings were the total opposite of yours. While I'm probably never giving up my e-reader and my iPad ways of reading, I couldn't help but admire those thousands of books lying in front of me, the covers, the bindings, the smell of paper, the texture etc. Of course I left the store empty handed too as I was not looking for anything specific. But I just don't think we can completely turn our backs on a medium that saw the birth of literature, a medium that has been around for centuries, it would be like forgetting that we had to invent the wheel before having our modern cars or forgetting the pyramids or everything that made our history what it is.
E-readers are practical and they clearly are the future but paper books are our past, our history and it feels to me almost like forgetting about them altogether is a way to say that we may read books but we don't fully appreciate them or understand what they mean and stood for all those past centuries.
Forget and lose yourself in the machine and you will forget that you are human...
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Scrolls saw the birth of literature.
They have been gone for a very long time.
Of course, you can't depict a three dimensional story adequately in a two dimensional medium. Storytelling reached its apex in the clay tablet.