05-28-2012, 03:51 AM | #1 |
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The future of bookshelves
If you were a furniture maker would you reduce your product line of bookshelves? And more importantly in a bookshelf free future how are people going to brag about their erudition?
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05-28-2012, 03:53 AM | #2 |
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05-28-2012, 04:00 AM | #3 |
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A touchscreen with an embedded Calibre-type program linked to a NAS or similar.
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That's a good question. I admit to 'showing off' my books, at least somewhat. Not necessarily because of content or literary value, but more so because many of them are high-quality collector items, some of [almost] museum quality. The shelves in my home office however do not host collectables, or even decorative works; they're full of technical and reference manuals, periodicals, and other works I use[d] mostly in the course of my trade. I could probably get rid of them altogether now as most everything they contain can more readily and reliable be pulled from the internet. But I won't. Sentimental value. |
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05-29-2012, 01:35 AM | #5 |
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I'd keep the bookshelves.
And the hypothesis assumes books will disappear |
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05-29-2012, 01:38 AM | #6 |
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Sell your bookshelves to the archivists as they start to store the ancient medium of reading called the "book."
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05-29-2012, 01:58 AM | #7 | |
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You and i won't see it, when our children reaches our age they will talk nostalgically about books, and our grand-children will hold on to heirlooms but they won't find new books. Their children will wonder why the hell old people refer to texts as books. |
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05-29-2012, 08:27 AM | #8 | |
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Fiction will move more and more towards the eBook but much non-fiction will require a lot more advances in tech before they are anywhere near a satisfactory substitute for paper... and your analogy is flawed as well in that vinyl is still selling well, maybe a niche but it's a large niche that actually grew over the last year despite the economic downturn... |
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05-29-2012, 09:19 AM | #10 |
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Paper books are going the way of the dinosaur and buggy whip. The sooner, the better.
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05-29-2012, 09:22 AM | #11 | |
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And to answer your original question, if I owned a company which made book cases, I'd continue making them, because the demand still is high for book cases. And even if we do switch entirely to e-books, people will still buy book cases, they will just put other things on them. |
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05-29-2012, 09:43 AM | #12 |
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You act like books are the only things you keep on shelves. In my bedroom I keep everything from photo albums to jewelery boxes in my bookcase. In my media room I have my DVD, Blue-rays and statues. In my livingroom, books, magazines, pictures and anything else I can fit.
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05-29-2012, 09:50 AM | #13 |
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^Bingo! And what about your collection or retro readers? Complete line of K1 to K37.
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