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Re: [SLE] [OT...sort of]Hardcopy or electronic books?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:11:23 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511212231340.5184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Monday 2005-11-21 at 07:06 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I, too, love books and my apartment is not big enough to hold my
> library. Does that stop me from getting more? No way.
Me too.
> But I think it's likely we'll see digital paper that is entirely
> paper-like (thin, flexible, probably tougher than real paper) that can
> display text and imagery like a printed page but be electronically
> changeable as well as holding its image persistently even when no power
> is supplied. Such books would have all the characteristics of a book
> today plus allow moving images and sound and search. No doubt with such
> technology in hand, people would find new things to do with "books."
I don't need cute features like search or sound, for that I'd have the
wall computer or the tablet (think Star Trek). What I want is to decide
what I'm going to read, "plug" an empty or available "digibook" to the
computer, and download "I Robot" to it in a reasonable time, so that I can
take it to bed.
> Would you object to having your library in electronic form and only as
> many "books" as you could actually use at once? Probably, and probably
> so would I, but that may not be true of future generations of book
> lovers. I do like to browse my library and pick up titles to peruse
> just to see what snippet of new knowledge I can pick up. Of course,
> when I can't find something I know is in some book somewhere in my
> library, I'm annoyed...
Paper is probably more perdurable than any other technology we have
invented yet for data storage. It has been proven "technology" over the
centuries.
Think!
You need a CD. A computer. Electricity. Suppose civilization is destroyed,
you have to build anew. You know the "disaster first aid manual" is in
that CD... which you can not read, because there is no power, computers
were destroyed, and you have to build electronic manufacturing first. It'd
take ages! Supposing the knowledge or the paper books to rebuild
all that were written and survived...
Ok, I shut up. It is OT. Well... it could be worse... that CD could be in
word instead of in OOo, and only Linux could be rebuilt because Microsoft
had disappeared! :-p
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Monday 2005-11-21 at 07:06 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I, too, love books and my apartment is not big enough to hold my
> library. Does that stop me from getting more? No way.
Me too.
> But I think it's likely we'll see digital paper that is entirely
> paper-like (thin, flexible, probably tougher than real paper) that can
> display text and imagery like a printed page but be electronically
> changeable as well as holding its image persistently even when no power
> is supplied. Such books would have all the characteristics of a book
> today plus allow moving images and sound and search. No doubt with such
> technology in hand, people would find new things to do with "books."
I don't need cute features like search or sound, for that I'd have the
wall computer or the tablet (think Star Trek). What I want is to decide
what I'm going to read, "plug" an empty or available "digibook" to the
computer, and download "I Robot" to it in a reasonable time, so that I can
take it to bed.
> Would you object to having your library in electronic form and only as
> many "books" as you could actually use at once? Probably, and probably
> so would I, but that may not be true of future generations of book
> lovers. I do like to browse my library and pick up titles to peruse
> just to see what snippet of new knowledge I can pick up. Of course,
> when I can't find something I know is in some book somewhere in my
> library, I'm annoyed...
Paper is probably more perdurable than any other technology we have
invented yet for data storage. It has been proven "technology" over the
centuries.
Think!
You need a CD. A computer. Electricity. Suppose civilization is destroyed,
you have to build anew. You know the "disaster first aid manual" is in
that CD... which you can not read, because there is no power, computers
were destroyed, and you have to build electronic manufacturing first. It'd
take ages! Supposing the knowledge or the paper books to rebuild
all that were written and survived...
Ok, I shut up. It is OT. Well... it could be worse... that CD could be in
word instead of in OOo, and only Linux could be rebuilt because Microsoft
had disappeared! :-p
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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