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Same here. I read at night with the lights off and the backlight set to low. I haven't touched a paper book in six years, and I like it just fine.
I agree that a library of nicely bound, hardcover'ed books does look pretty nice and cozy, but our whole attitude towards them is changing. Books increasingly aren't things you put on shelves and dust off once or twice; you absorb its knowledge and toss it. That's what I do with my E-books. Make it, read it, delete it. Poof, it's gone. I read several books a month. If I bought all of them in paper form, I'd have to sleep outside in the shed - my house would be filled from floor to attic with books. Whereas, if I wanted to, I could store *every book I've ever read* on a 512 mb SD card; just about the size of a postage stamp. 8O
Just ten years ago, this would've been science fiction. In another ten, fifteen years our kids will be asking us, 'what's that big thing on the shelve with that thin stuff with letters on it?' Librarys as we know them will be more like warehouses, storing books in climate-controlled vaults; their knowledge and wisdom safely stored on a single PC; containing the sum of all knowledge of mankind...
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