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Originally Posted by SigilBear
That kind of sums up my feelings about computers in general.
I'm a lifelong naturalist who appreciates the outdoors, simplicity, etc. So I never could imagine how I could ever like computers, let alone keep my head buried in a monitor all day long.
In fact, my laptop is nothing more than a tool that helps me learn and organize information. It's far more useful than print.
However, I still find print more aesthetic. There was an abandoned one-room school building on my uncle's farm in South Dakota. I went inside one day and found some ancient text books published before World War II. They were books my mother read.
I don't think ebooks will have the same mystique a hundred years from now.
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I own and cherish a few vintage textbooks myself.
On the other hand due to ebooks (and the work of countless volunteers) I can read and enjoy old books that I would have never been able to find or afford otherwise. And I do find a certain mystique in the survival and transformation of words that were originally handwritten, then typeset and finally exist as ebooks. The very fact that every time I download such a book I'm helping to increase the number of copies that exist is thought-provoking (particularly with books which survived the great pruning of the the so-called dark ages).