Yes and no.
Music is Music. CD/DVD/LP/Cassette/MP3 are all mediums to deliver
the content of music.
Books on the other hand are something that has to be read. The
medium it is presented in determines how it can be used.
When I was in school we carried books, and marked them according to
our studies. Eve today some books that I read for work are books
that I mark and dog ear pages for further reference.
However there is a class of books that may be more useful presented
in an electronic format that and that is reference books.
In each occupation there is a group of books that we use for
reference. Books that sit on the shelf and that are brought down to
look up a point a reference, a point of interest that we might be
using in a class, a paper etc.
Already in theology there are a huge portion of our reference
libraries that are available on disk that make buying the physical
books obsolete and much easier to carry and move.
These books I can see putting on an electronic medium to use.
I carry a sleection of paperback title with me on my smartphone and
my pda so I have a ready book to read when I am traveling or stuck
somewhere. My smartphone and PDA are much easier to carry than a kindle.
SO I think it will depend on the situation.
In some cases the book is similar enough to an MP3 that it can be put
on an electronic format and in some cases it is not.
Stewart
At 11:05 AM 5/20/2009, you wrote:
>I hope the electronic Kindle, and the like, doesn't replace
>printed books.
Are electronic books sufficiently similar to MP3s that they will do to
books what MP3s did to CDs?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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