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Originally Posted by TGS
It's an admirable aspiration and I wish you well but here's a bit of a problem. I'm about to move house and over the years I have reduced my paper books down to about 500. I consider myself pretty much liseusified - I use my liseuse every day and rarely resort to paper books - and I was thinking maybe now is the time to just get rid of the this rump of dead trees. Trouble is, I don't think I can do it. This is only partly rational - some of the 500 paper books are reference and academic books that I might use at some point - but most are novels. For example I have the last 8 novels of Iris Murdoch in hardback, they take up an inordinate amount of space, I shall likely never read them again, (apart from The Sea, The Sea), I could get them as ebooks. Why don't I get rid of them - being hardback I could probably get as much for them at the English Bookshop where I live in Denmark. as the ebooks would cost. I don't know why I won't get rid of them but I won't.
Maybe liseusification can happen alongside the continued existence of paper books - I hope so. Maybe paper books will become a bit like vintage cars - nobody would buy a vintage car simply as a means of transport, but there are people who see something of value in just having and maintaining vintage cars.
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People often think they will never read a book again - but in a few years, they find themselves doing it again anyways
But yeah keeping books will one day be akin to keeping wine, and e-books for everyday reading. There will always be something not digitized (if I'm not mistaken).
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I am 100% liseuseified, no paper books at all now In fact, I've gone from paper book collector to loathing the damn things. They're so old fashioned and ridiculous for delivering information in the digital age. I'd say we'll still have some die hard collectors around in 2020, but paper books won't be anything but an antique toy or decoration beyond that.
Then again, I did think ePub would win the format war and that's looking doubtful now. So take my predictions with a grain of salt. |
I think paper books will still be more than a toy
But yeah less and less an everyday thing.
As for ePub, the jury is still out!
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Originally Posted by Iphinome
hmmm toute le monde liseuseified.... I guess a few more years till they're so cheap most people have 2 or 3 laying around the house.
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You need more than one liseuse?
I could understand having more than one liseuse around for more than one user!