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Originally Posted by Katsunami
LOL. Indeed. If an e-book wasn't a real book, then a video game wouldn't be a real game...
Same goes for older people.
How would you listen to music in 'the old days' (before 2000)?
Go to a shop. Pick up an LP/CD, pay for it and go home.
Put the album into your player. Press "Play" and listen.
Now try that digitally. You'll have to make sure your player can play the file format, is compatible with DRM used (if any), you'll have to buy, download, store, organize and backup the files... etc.
Listening to music digitally (or reading books, or watching movies, anything...) has become a LOT more complex to understand for people who haven't grown up with using computers from childhood.
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Yes...that's how I *bought* music in 'the old days', but that's definitely NOT how I found music. In 'the old days', I found music mostly by listening to the radio. There were a couple of local bands that I listened to, but for the most part, they didn't have music I could buy--if I wanted to listen to their music I had to either go to a live show or find a recording of one of their shows on cassette tape.
I still mostly listen to the radio if I'm in the car. If I'm at home, I use my Echo, or I use YouTube.
For me, at least, music is MUCH less complex now than it was 'in the old days'
Now...to bring it back to books. In 'the old days', I had to get in my car (or get a ride) to the store or the library and hope that they had something that I wanted to read. Now, I can buy books at 2:00 in the morning in my pajamas. (I actually did that last weekend).
I'm much more likely to find something that I want to read, because I have a much larger pool of books to choose from.
Again...much less complex.
Shari