Thread: Funny article about the future of paper books
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Old 05-26-2010, 10:39 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by maxbookworm View Post
This discussion compels me to quote from my favorite e-reading article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...ure-e-book.ars

"I'm sure plenty of people swore they would never ride in or operate a "horseless carriage"—and they never did! And then they died."
Outstanding line & SO true!!

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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga View Post
I really love the nonchalantness of this sentence - it drives home the point that, in the long run, the holdouts are irrelevant. When the world is made up of people who have since birth read most of their words on a digital screen, it won't matter what supposed advantages physical books have over eBooks.
I totally agree. This pretty much all boils down to people who don't/won't accept change. They are free to do so. Me personally, I'm a lot more flexible than that.

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Word.
AMEN.
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