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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Heh, my chemistry teacher talked about slide rules and extrapolating numbers and how we had it all made. I am young enough to never have had to use one; cheap calculators have been available since I was born.
A physical book is also a way to get a job done. It is a way to deliver information (specifically, words) to you so you can read it. And eBooks do a better job of it.
It's not like devices which are used purely for entertainment have been spared the march of progress. After all, digital downloads and CDs replaced LP discs and tapes.
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I think you're mixing up things a little.
I try to explain better those analogies.
Music:
No recording will ever replace a real orchestra in an auditorium.
No audio only file will ever replace music videoclips.
But, different recordings will always replace one another (78rpm were replaced bay 45 and 33, some of them were replaced by CDs, SACDs, DAT tapes, mp2, mp3, AAC, APE, FLAC, whatever...).
Different videoclips will replace each other (VHS, laser disc, DVD, Blu Ray....)
And even younger musicians will replace the older in the orchestra.
Books:
Deliver information is the writer's act, not the reader's.
Hypertext will replace paper completely when it's up to find information or lookup a word in a dictionary. It's just a matter of time.
Ebooks will replace pbooks for visual people. Audiobooks have for some auditive people. None of them won't for tactile and olfattive people.
What I'm saying is: there is at least a 33% of readers who won't ever be completely satisfied by ebooks as they're now.