Thread: What? No 'smell of books'?
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Old 02-08-2009, 01:57 PM   #6
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Replace? No. Co-exist? Definitely.

We can have both, if we choose.
And for the moment, any way, some books still work best as physical paper books.

For fiction and some non-fiction I'd prefer electronic over paper. For "coffee table" books, books showing techniques in colour (photography books, for example), and books designed to be used in an environment hazardous to electronics (at least some cookery books, most of my metal working books, some gardening books, and so on).

Minor rant time...

What I would really like to see is flexible e-ink devices replace the traditional newspaper. I can understand that people have difficulties reading the old broadsheet sized papers on a crowded train. But most papers, in he UK at least, are now tabloid or berlinner in size - and still some people end up elbowing the people all around as they turn pages, and/or use them as rests for their papers. turn pages, and/or use them as rests for their papers.
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