Monday, February 8, 2010

Is this the end of books as we know them?

I personally really believe that the answer to that question would be no, it is definitely not the end to books as we know them. The video that we watched on that device that can store many books in itself was pretty cool and impressive. It's basically to reading material, what ipod is to music. The ipod did kind of lower the CD sales by ALOT (I don't even own s single CD but have close to a thousand songs on my iTunes) so if we look at previous records one might assume that the Kindle will do the same to books, but for some reason I just don't feel like that will happen. I would much rather read text from a regular book, to me there's just something about an actual paper book that isn't transferable to an electronic device. Books seem to have meaning when you pic them up, they have passed through various people's hands and others have shared what you're about to read. To me that makes the text more valuable. I may be totally wrong about this and people might be carrying Kindles around ten years from now like they do with ipods already, but for some reason I just have a feeling that books will stick around for a long time.

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