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Topic: Our generation (people reading this BBS now in their teens/twenties) will be the last to read books.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw started this discussion 13 years ago#28,242
On paper at least. I remember when I was a small child (5 or 6) my mom got me a set of children's encyclopedias and I read them all the time. And in school, everything was of course paper based. I was a voracious reader then and now, mainly of nonfiction. I remember the first time when I read a digital encyclopedia, it was 1997 and it was the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia on CD-ROM and I was just blown away. It had links to other articles within articles (kind of like Wikipedia now), and little videos and stuff to illustrate the topics. By this time, I had traded in the children's encyclopedias for a set of the World Book encyclopedia, but soon the paper ones started gathering dust and at some point they vanished. I didn't even miss them.
Fast forward to last year: the paper encylopedias are long gone and Wikipedia dominates my online life. I receive a Kindle for Christmas, and the last vestiges of my paper reading are gone. I have three books I bought new in 2012 which I still haven't read yet, but in the interim I have read over a dozen books on my Kindle, with 35 more loaded on there waiting. The experience of reading on the Kindle is just so much more efficient.
I guess it doesn't matter because reading itself won't vanish, but the experience of paper, the feel, the smell of books, the sensation of turning a page will never be experienced by most people who are kids now. By the time they're our age, tablets will be less than $50 and all the libraries will be gone.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later[^][v]#418,284
Cool population validity, bro.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 minutes after the original post[^][v]#418,288
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Fine then I'll just close Chrome and go back to my digital library.
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#418,289
I dunno, paper books will always be cheaper and in some cases free. That's always a bonus.
TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 32 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^][v]#418,295
I still prefer reading paper books, I find them much more enjoyable - I'm not even sure why. I have a Kindle but I've only read a handful of books on it.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,339
Both of my little sisters (9 and 10) are reading paper books right now.
You're wrong. It'll take MUCH longer for paper books to be totally phased out.
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TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,341
@previous (E)
Yeah this. My nephew loves reading. Granted he doesn't use paper encyclopaedias, but I don't think he's ever sat down and read an ebook cover to cover.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 20 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,348
I know that this might not be an entirely valid, airtight point, but books are VERY deeply ingrained. It's most likely that real books and e-books will just sorta... co-exist. At least for the forseeable future.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,351
i can actually read a paper book, whereas if i try and read an ebook i enviably get distracted by the internet after about two paragraphs.
also, libraries regularly toss out old books for some reason