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Originally Posted by crich70
The humble screwdriver is an example of a re-purposed tool. It's first use was back in the days of plate armor for knights I understand. Back then very few things were screwed together and the plate armor was one of them. Plate armor reached it's point of being less than useful in battle around 1600 (some 416 yrs ago) with the invention of gunpowder weapons. Back then even things like nails were used for few things (horseshoes being one) as houses were held together via wooden pegs rather than nails. I don't know if the paper book or notebook could be re-purposed in some way in the future but I don't see them vanishing any time soon. People still like to write things down (especially some authors while brainstorming) and of course as others have said not all books translate well to ebook formats. A set of encyclopedias for example wouldn't do well as ebooks due to the size of the file. Nor I think would most reference materials. Fiction yes, but non-fiction no.
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Best example of a book not translating to ebook would be cross stitch patterns.
Printable pdfs are ok, but mobi or e-pub not so much.
Some small patterns are ok but anything over 100 by 100 squares gets hard to follow in an e book.
Or a pattern with say 10 different shades of brown.
I make working copies of my cross stitch patterns. Perfectly legal as long as I don't sell the copies. Though by the time I am done with the working copy, it is useless as a pattern.