Why do physical books still even exist?
Phones and ereaders completely replaced them already.
Why do physical books still even exist?
Lucas Jones
Anthony Miller
Because it feels better to read on a physical book you fucking retard
Joseph Carter
Is there anything better than the cover of a book being a painting that wasn't made for the novel but way before?
Cameron Watson
I think many many many people agree that physical > electronic. The eventual threat we face is people just not reading books anymore for pleasure. I'm 18, and do people my age read? Look, I socialise with many Oxbridge applicants and even among them reading as a hobby is scanty. What does that say about our future generations? Sorry for memeing and being a 'wow so deep yung pepul dont reed anymuh' but it's accurate, perhaps. I do not know I am basing this all on anecdotal evidence and I have no statistics to back up my claims!
Blake Gutierrez
You write like a retard.
Joseph Peterson
People couldn't even read all that well in the past. The actual number of literate citizens has ballooned, and so has the number of well-read ones.
E-readers are still shitty. The main problem is people being able to download any book easily for free. Piracy is much more of a threat to books than it is to music or movies.
Colton Foster
book
>heavy
>no searching
>no automatic bookmarking
>no lighting
>fragile
phone
>light
>can store thousands of books
>convenient
>screens are already good and high-resolution enough to not strain your eyes
How do books feel better?
Xavier Taylor
you can forget that you have a pdf or an epub. you won't forget to read a book sitting on your coffee table
>or on the coffee table of some qt
>or in the office of some prof you need to schmooze with
>ywn have a qt prof who provocatively leaves a copy of being & time on display, as if you wouldn't notice this
>is that a weltgeschichte in your pocket or are you just happy to see me, onto-ontologically speaking ofc
>*dasein intensifies*
>you're drooling on my floor
>tfw
also having a physical copy of the Big Book of Answers on hand is more useful when indoctrinating an army/cult, leaflets &c. equipping a peasant mob w/e-readers is expensive
John Phillips
I find it really good to read physical books even though most of my reading is done on a screen. It hurts my eyes less than the screen for one, and it actually promotes more posture by me having to change position and actually rest all the time (against common sense, the ease of reading with a kindle or such increases laziness of posture). That said I have nothing against ereaders but they are not going to supplant books for the next couple years for me.
Also consider that books are still the leaders of preserving information storage. You might think HDs are very good by now but most commercial stuff lasts for hundreds of years on end, while a fine print, hard cover which is taken good care of, can last up to thousands of years. Of course, we can outdo that with biologically inspired electronics, but those are still on testing phase and not going to hit the market that soon either.
Lastly, it is tremendously difficult to break the barrier of taking everything that was written before (and we still have copies of) from print to digital media. Google was doing this with Scholar but unfortunately were hit with a lawsuit and the project has stopped without hopes of ever going back up. They can't even release what they already have for free. So this is another staple ereaders (in spite of the apparent success) haven't fully crossed yet, which is that of granting a (permanently backed up) copy of everything we have written before. These are some of the reasons I believe physical books will remain in existence for a long while still. On the other hand I don't think "the extinction of books" is gonna be any huge event of sorts, I think we'll just slowly migrate to digital seamlessly just like with music.
Carter Reed
Retard? I think you mean ReMard?