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Books, the paper kind.
Researcher 198131 Started conversation Sep 15, 2002
People often ask me (because I work in a progressive public library, with lots of new fangled technology*) whether I think there will be paper books in the future.
I tell them I think it will be a long time before books disappear. At least I hope so. We have to have some way of preserving information. Have you ever tried to open a file you wrote on Works in Windows 3.1 in Word 2000, for instance. The older a file gets, the harder it usually is to read on updated software. Not to mention the fact, that the software often fails!
(I mean it's wonderful when it works, but. . .)
I love books, and hope they will survive.
*ie. online databases, Internet access, CD ROMs, e-books, etc.
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