Imagine a few days before celebrating his birthday party, rapping at your door to tell them that their days are numbered . What a disappointment, right? Well that's exactly it passed to the paper book.
When little was needed to celebrate her , and technology publications have predicted similar to book your early death at the hands of new -tablet computers. These modern marvels have large screens, resizable text and enough hard drive to put them all text that you want. As if that was not enough, the tablets can surf the Web, create documents, databases, presentations and a thousand other things. But despite all the wonders of the tablets, much still remains to put an end to paper books, and much has been prophesied.
True, printed material has not colorful animations, hypertext, or network access, but has a presence and a legitimacy that no electronic text. The digital book is composed of ones and zeros into millions of pixels displayed behind glass for liquid crystal, which can not be touched without risk of electrocution. In contrast, paper and ink to form a book invite be felt and experienced while you provide colors, textures and aromas to reading. As the new car smell is part of the driving experience, the intoxicating scent of ink on a freshly printed book reaches deep in the brain of the reader.
It is this tactile experience which makes a book feel authentic paper in our hands. The book is something similar may possess, deliver, annotate, personalize, spend. How do the authors devote eBooks downloaded by your readers? Do you have to sign the Kindle?
Another sad aspect of the immateriality of electronic books is without a cover. Sure, the digital version of the text usually includes a picture of the cover, but how will it be the same? Although the adage says you can not judge a book by its cover, millions of people know that this is not true. Part of the fun of visiting a library is to wander aimlessly among the oven, and allow themselves to be seduced by the siren song of the hundreds of covers with colors, texts and shapes persuade us to purchase.
Finally, a supposed "advantage" of electronic books is that you can save the entire Library of Alexandria in a space smaller than a shoebox. And what grace is that? For those who like similar books, this is not an advantage, since these compounds volumes of printed sheets, sewn together at one end and protected by a cover, are precious artifacts for bibliomaniac and joy is a special display in the bookshops. Since there are dumb guarantors of our cultural heritage, our passion for reading, our thirst for knowledge. They are our literary treasures much more valuable than gold and silver.
Long live the book!
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