Hi Tom.
I can accept your view about the sentimentality of books, though never
having read in print myself it's not really something I can mentally get a
handle on, ---- nindeed I'd much rather read in audio than braille because
of the time and convenience factors involved.
The funny thing is however, yesterday was my dad's 65th birthday and what
did we buy him? a kindle, precisely because! it is convenient to use. my dad
loves reading, and with modern E inc screens which are not back lit, can be
read in sunlight and (according to a friend of mine I researched the kindle
with), actually give a far closer experience to reading print than you'd
think, from the look of the cover even to the paper look of the pages.
With research, it's actually a huge bennifit to students. When for intance
for my phd I wished to know the exact British legal specifications for low
IQ, moderate, severe and profound learning disability, I just used
wikipedia.
when my brother was studdying law, because very small parts of the law
change, lawbooks needed to constantly be reprinted every year, ---- not
electronically however.
then of course there is the cost factor, though quite typically amazon and
other book producers aren't exactly passing on those savings to their
customers as they should do (though hopefully once sights like podiobooks
and other E publishing becomes more common the larger companies may see
sense on this matter).
I actually E-mailed publishers of both sets of original gamebooks that are
being reprinted, and got no answer, but what I suspect is that they are
going very much for the nostalgia value, hoping to appeal to fans of the
original fighting fantasy and lone wolf series with print originals, though
happily a lot of new gamebooks are being published exclusively on the Iphone
and other mobile platforms, so again this might change in the future.
While I suspect there will always be some sort of desire for paper printed
books, I do myself look forward to a time when these are reduced to a
curiosity only, and the vast majority of information is available as
electronic, accessible, none tree killing form, (though whether the big wigs
of publishing will let this happen i'm not sure).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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