On 21/11/05, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
Carlos,
On Sunday 20 November 2005 08:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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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
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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. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR