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Originally Posted by rcentros
"Real" as in "it exists independently of any other medium." Without eReaders or other computers, or storage devices, or electricity, an eBook does not exist — the words themselves don't exist. If you go on an extended camping trip without electricity, you're not going to have a "real" book on your eReader. You have a "potential" book but one that requires the eReader be recharged. Not so with a "real" (paper) book. Until the pages rot away, it's always "on" and always "charged." It's never a "potential" book, it exists independently of the conditions necessary for the existence of an eBook. So, in that sense, a paper book is always "real," as opposed to the potential "reality" of an eBook when certain conditions are not met.
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Sorry, no. Nothing is always real. All things can be destroyed, get lost, stolen and so on. Including paper books and even clay or stone tablets.