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Originally Posted by JSWolf
if hardback books went away, I would not be sad at all. In fact, that would be a good day.
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I don't think it would be a good day at all. I buy 100+ hardcover books every year. Some books and authors are well worth keeping in a permanent collection and the one thing that is certain today is that an ebook is far from permanent.
And contrary to the opinion of most, there are still lots of important books that are not suitable for ebooks unless one is willing to consider PDF as an ebook format (but even then, I would much prefer a print copy).
I have yet to see a 2-year-old ooh and ahh over the ebook version of a Beatrix Potter book like they do over the print version.
At this moment in the evolution of books, ebooks are really only wholly acceptable for fiction that has virtually no graphical element and that is considered "read once then toss" material (and yes, there are some exceptions, but exceptions only act to prove the rule).