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Old 05-26-2010, 10:09 AM   #26
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Every person I know who loves to ride horses uses cars or trains to commute. No one of them uses buses for fun, they ride horses.
And yes, cars have replaced horses and saddlecoaches as means of transportation.
And that is precisely the point. Yes, there's a niche market for horses (more than that even, perhaps) but as a means of transportation they are no longer relevant. Printed paper books won't go completely away, either, they just won't be used for the bulk of our reading material in the future.

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