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Pride Of Lions · 10-08-2006, 02:49 PM

I don't see how people can think paper is dead. I love my PDA for it's eBook capabilities, but paper is still very much alive to the non-bleeding-edge, other-side-of-the-Digital-Divide people.

And for when electricity isn't available. Just today the utilities companies were working outside and my power was off for a bit. Sure I have 1.1 million books on my Axim, but only limited power. Since it was daytime, I could have my pick of my paper library without worrying about running out of juice. Luckily, the power was restored within a few hours, but what if I needed reading for days at a time without electricity? Everytime I travel, I read my eBooks and articles, but I always have paper books at the ready for just such an emergency.

10-08-2006, 02:49 PM	#2
Pride Of Lions just kinda geeky Posts: 381 Karma: 30 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Oakland, California Device: iPhone	I don't see how people can think paper is dead. I love my PDA for it's eBook capabilities, but paper is still very much alive to the non-bleeding-edge, other-side-of-the-Digital-Divide people. And for when electricity isn't available. Just today the utilities companies were working outside and my power was off for a bit. Sure I have 1.1 million books on my Axim, but only limited power. Since it was daytime, I could have my pick of my paper library without worrying about running out of juice. Luckily, the power was restored within a few hours, but what if I needed reading for days at a time without electricity? Everytime I travel, I read my eBooks and articles, but I always have paper books at the ready for just such an emergency.