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[Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/11/05, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Carlos,
>
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 08:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Paper is easier to read, and you can go to bed with it: a chapter of
> > the SuSE Adminstration Guide, and I'm off :-p . But electronic paper
> > is being developed, that can be printed "by wire", like a display.
> > Perhaps we'll have books like that some time in the future.
>
> Count on it. The first technologies are actually just around the corner.
> The value of "digital paper" (by any definition, and there are several)
> is so great and so obvious that a lot of people are working very hard
> on it.
>
>
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >        Carlos Robinson
>
>
> Randall Schulz
>
> --

I have no doubt that in the distant future books will all be in an
electronic format :-(((((  However, I also believe that there will
always be a substantial number of people who yearn for good old
fashioned printed on paper :-)  Like me.  I have an extensive book
collection here at home.  Quite a mixture of computing books, antural
history and a lot of fishing books.  I also have a massive collection
- for an average Joe Public - of fiction, crime, horror and sci-fi. 
Fiction is the one that I like to snuggle down in bed with and read
before going to sleep and no electronic book is ever going to replace
that feeling.  It will, of course, inevitably become a lost feeling.

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