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Old 03-10-2009, 10:59 AM   #40
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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.
This is also probably far more subjective than most people realize. It's a matter of how we're raised and what we've become accustomed to. Recent survey at Stanford found that our next generations prefers the sounds of MP3s over sounds of higher quality recordings. We are not going to be the last generation (not by a long shot) raised on paper. But, just as sci-fi authors predict, there will come a day where a generation will look back and see us as quaint, where paper books will be a privilege of the elite collector ...
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