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Originally Posted by omk3
Cheap? Yes. Compared to ebooks? The price is more or less the same, and in actual fact ebooks should be cheaper, but that's a different discussion.
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Compared to a horse. The argument was that the horse example was irrelevant
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Efficient? Not really, if you compare them to ebooks. You can't seach the text, you can't instantly copy a passage and paste it elsewhere for reference, you can't have your book filled with bookmarks and notes and still be pristine as the day you bought it, you can't have bookmarks in ten places at the same time without them falling off all the time, or making the book awkwardly thick, you can't instantly look up a word, you can't change the font size, or even the font, for a better reading experience suited to your needs. All these things I now miss every time I try to read a paper book.
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I meant efficient for what it do (communicate text). A horse is very inefficient for transporting things.