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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
What is wrong with books?
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- There aren't any of those I want to read where I live, for a start. Anything in English (apart from a few hundred titles available locally) I have to order from a thousand miles away, at a considerable expense. And then it takes them at least 10 days to arrive.
- Books a perishable. Fires, floods, rats, etc. An electronic copy is indestructable. Even if you lose your hard drive, you can always download a new copy from the net, where it's abailable in infinite copies.
- Books are big and bulky. I can't lug a whole library of paper books when I travel. My ereader holds thousands.
Now, do you want me also to explain what is wrong with horse-drawn carriages, candles and telegraph?