Thread: Seriousness eBooks: a danger to posterity?
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Old 04-12-2009, 06:11 AM   #1
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eBooks: a danger to posterity?
Except certain technical and reference books, I noticed how paper books are being replaced by electronic books in my life. Most of my leisure reading material are ebooks.

Months ago I've read The Stand, by Stephen King. And a thought occurred to me: what if ebooks will replace completely the pbooks? What if for some reason, in a post apocalyptic scenario, we can't produce electricity and recharge our computers and ereaders?

Do we loose all books? If an alien race visited our extinct world 2000 years from now... Won't they find any written material about us past a certain date? Will the year we enter in a full ebook format society be known as... The dark age? If I do a trip to a place without electricity, will that equate to no reading possibility?
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