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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
But if those disappear as a result of the rise of ebooks, I don't think that's too much of a loss. The physical book may start to become like the record vinyl of today, where it exists more as a collector's item on your shelf than as the thing you actually consume.
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I don't know. A decade ago I used to think so too. But ebooks aren't popular at all in my corner of the world; very few people here read them and I don't know anyone who actually prefers them to paper books, besides myself. No one in my family has ever wanted to try an ereader or an ebook.
At the rate it's been going here, ebooks won't be replacing paper books any time soon, maybe not even in this century. Frankly it seems more likely people will give up recreational reading altogether, with many of them already preferring constant scrolling and jumping around on their phones to anything else. They no longer have the necessary focus for long-form reading.