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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
What I don't understand is why the need for the new technology in the first place? What is wrong with books? Libraries?
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Nothing is wrong with books--except for the time and expense of producing and distributing them, and the amount of space they take up. Not everyone lives next to a large, well-stocked library. And no library is infinite--I suspect that no libraries contain all the texts currently available at Project Gutenberg. I am certain none of them can allow a hundred readers at once to read all of those texts.