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What is a "complete and better experience" in your mind?
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In my mind is everithing which let me read and understand what's written in a book. For me, the iLiad, with its dictionary lookup feature gives a better experience than a paper book.
For aurial people a better experience include sound, for tactile people, it includes weight and pages to be turned.
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Do you want ebooks or ebook readers to smell of paper?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
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To become yellow and musty with age?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
[QUOTE=omk3;929426]Do you want them to play a sound when you turn a page?
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Do you want to be able to rip them apart?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
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To change their weight according to the size of the book?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
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To make it easy to accidentally turn two pages at once (I do it with paper books all the time, and wonder why the continuity suddenly doesn't make sense). To give you paper-cuts on demand?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
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To be awkward to hold open when you reach the middle of a thick book?
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No, I don't.
But there are people who do.
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Yes paper books will always exist, as do vinyl records. Some people will love them, some more than others, and will collect them. Even people who buy vinyl records actually listen to the mp3 versions more often - I know, I live with one of them!
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My opinion is that people who love to read books on paper are far more than LP lovers. And they add up to 33% of the entire population almost.
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I really don't understand what you're trying to prove.
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It's all in my first post:
1. the author of that funny article is missing the point that lots of people want (not necessarily knowingly) to feel the book they're reading with all five senses. And the "tactile and olfactory" ones are not such a minority. And, most of all, they're not driven by nostalgia or by fondness to obsolete technology, but by the need of more complete experience (complete in term of senses, I mean).
2. to compare tools and leisures is wrong. Typewriter is a tool, and it's been replaced by word processing (still, a very small percentage of writers may still use it). Motor boats replaced galleons when used as tools, but sailing, as a sport, is still high. How many sailboats were sold in 1810? How many this year? Is it a so little percentage?
3. When ebooks will give the full experience they'll be ready to fully replace books. But in present they are not. And, honestly, if all the development goes toward colors, stronger DRM and higher prices, I don't see it happening very soon.
4 Just in case, I repeat again: I'm an ebook enthusiast. I've not read paper since I bought my third reader two years ago. I'm not talking about myself.