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Originally Posted by EricGagne
The clip is very cool, I love the "iPhone" way of moving things around or zooming. The part where they take the printed copy and transfer it to their ebook reader to purchase them is not so cool however. I hope that by the time ebook readers get that advanced it's gonna be a long time since we last cut trees to print books.
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i agree, there are a lot of really interesting functions demonstrated in this video.
as for the paper books... i think ebooks and paper books will continue to be complementary, and i don't expect (nor wish) for paper books to disappear completely ; some books, like the oversized, full-colour beautiful book of art reproductions in the video, are just better suited for viewing on paper rather than a screen, especially as for now at least screens are mostly small and not very high definition. however, i wouldn't mind seeing cheap pocket paperbacks become much less common, being mostly if not completely replaced by ebooks. some forms of paper books i do think will become obsolete. i don't expect good quality art books to disappear though, at least not before we have devices which can project fully-convincing 3d hologramme reproductions, possibly via a pair of glasses.