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Originally Posted by Sonist
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Art books, coffee table books.... Maybe.
Look at photos: I find that I, as well as most of my unfortunate friends I subject to travel photos viewing, prefer to view them as a slideshow on a 60" plasma, than in an album (or iPhoto book.)
The digital age is here. (Note to publishers: Deal with it.)
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Good point.
But you're talking "photo" generically.
And in photography you can't part content from medium, like you can for (most of the) books.
You can't see Ansel Adams photos digitally: most part of his work were done in the darkroom. Just like Bresson, Kresnetz, and every other great photographer. If you try, you just miss it all. No digital device, today, can give the viewer the same visual impact a good fine art print gives.
OTOH you can read Shakespeare's poetry from a file without missing a thing.
It's true for most books, not all. I remember a mystery novel in which clues were given by watching in transparency the back of the page I was reading... Hard to do in an electronic reflowable format, don't you agree?
But how audiobooks fit in the picture (pardon the pun)?
Why they didn't replace printed text?
I think it's about feeling, and in the future we will see 3 kind of "readers" (I mean people who read books): listeners, p-readers and e-readers.
Usually I don't believe in NLP, but I see that in this case it gives a pretty good point of view.
