Thread: Actually Bought A Book
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Old 02-22-2020, 05:15 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by crane3 View Post
I consider that Japan is a very "hi-tech" country but still having so many bookstores just boggles my mind where people are still reading printed books & buying them
What is so strange: electronics cannot replace paper. It completes it, and only partially.
People do not buy paper after a reason that they cannot buy bytes. The experience is not the same, nor are the pros and cons.

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Japan's not as high tech as you might think. ... Wi-fi is scarce and for most places, cash is king. Debit cards are not common
But again, you could pay with cards, I bet, in case you wanted to? That is "Hi-tech". It is not "advanced" to jump on a technological bandwagon "just because it's there", as I am seeing in the - clearly decaying to a fall - western world.
Those two points - containment of unrequired pollution and privacy as a default - indicate "civilized" to me.

Japan is, according to the 2016 OECD report about literacy, the current pinnacle of the distribution of intellectual skills - and well higher than second-placed Scandinavian - Benelux countries. They probably have, in general, an idea of what they are doing.
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