By the way, I'm beginning to wonder if proponents of the elimination of paper/printed texts are those who don't have to use book sources that much in their day to day work life. Perhaps many of these proponents are only thinking within the realm of leisure reading??
For those of use who read a lot of text to do our research and use qualitative analysis and whose products are all text-based (e.g., journal articles, books, chapters, etc.), I suspect most cannot see the elimination of the printed format because only having one screen to work with for digital text even if that screen is say 30 inches, is very, very cumbersome. I would say that digital text adds some advantages over printed text but it does not replace it. Both can be used in conjunction with each other. It is not an either-or proposition.
To someone like me who works with a lot of text for a living, this seems very obvious to me.
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