The printed format -- deceased or prematurely pronounced dead?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[av8rdave]

1. Not dead, but terminal

Once everyone who grew up with the tactile experience of handling print media dies off, its final demise will happen quickly.

That's my uneducated prediction.

[HappyMe]

2. Prematurely pronounced dead.

My local library is always busy. There will always, always be people who would rather have an actual book.
Not everyone has a computer or even wants one. I don't see myself paying over $100 for a little screen thingy & then paying to have the book dumped into it.

[nolabear]

3. I think both will survive. Paper books will be works of art or legacies

and ebooks will be good reads. At least, that's my take, as someone who loves both. I buy books that have meaning for me or are beautiful, and for a good old novel or poetry collection I have the Kindle. It's light, I can carry it around in my purse, and since I'm one of those people who reads three books at once I can have them all with me. It's win-win as far as I'm concerned.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. I am contemplating getting a Kindle...

...but there is NOTHING like a book in my hands. The Smell, the page turning. I love the written word. And book stores and libraries do it for me. I'm sick, I know. LOL
Duckie

[Scout]

5. prematurely pronounced dead

i've been hearing about the death of printed books since the early 90s.

it will never happen.

[Lucian]

6. I had a conversation like this the other night.

The thing I love about books is that they have an age to them. There's nothing more exhilarating and surreal than picking up a book from the 1700s and reading its contents. A book is like a fine wine. It gets better as it ages. In a hundred years from now, when we're looking at books being published only on a digital format, there won't be any history to it. It'll just be another digital book.