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Originally Posted by bookman156
bothering to publish something, thus cutting down on it a little). Oh, okay, it's useful to be able to carry a 1000 books on a trek for the weight of one and to search in the text. Apart from that, I still prefer print books. I must be a dinosaur.
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I think there are more changes. Digital lets you continue the publication of things that, on paper , would not be sustainable. Magazine for example, or poetry. It enables the maintenance of a catalog titles for times that on paper would be impossibile. It allows you to create texts in which a whole range of expressive tools (like footnotes, pictures, graphs, datas) become something radically different. Of course I'm thinking about texts born designed for digital. And yes, microdata, indexing, markup, code are the next way to handle information. Because, remember, the book is not *the* informations, it is only a way to handle them. Not the only one.