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How Come Books Are Still Popular?
Technology usually robs physical items of their use. For example camera's, cd's, DVD's tend not to be sold in stores or used as much due to the development of smartphones/devices.
However books seem to have stood their ground and still be popular (which is a good thing).
I am wondering why do you think this is. I know I prefer a physical book to reading off screen but I can't really identify why.
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Technology makes things easier but it becomes boring after a while, and you yearn for a physical object.
If they ever developed a Star Trek type vending machine where you could ask for any meal and it appeared, it would be hugely popular for a time but eventually cooking things yourself would make a comeback.
I haven't read a paper novel since 2007, when I bought my first e-Reader, a beautiful Sony model. I much prefer eBooks as I can read in bed without putting the light on, adjust the font and I don't lose my place if I fall asleep holding it. I can read it in the brightest of sunlight and the darkest of nights. I can easily carry it in my pocket.
Print still accounts for 80% of sales (https:/
The big advantage to eReaders is holidays. So much easier to carry a small device that only needs charging every couple of weeks than a fortnight's worth of books especially when flying.
I have a Kindle, but that's for bedtime reading. Downstairs i read hardbacks mainly, with the odd paperback thrown in now and again.
I think there is something very satisfying in holding a weighty book, using a bookmark to hold your place and then finally closing the book for the last time when it has been read.
I also find, that when i've read a hardback/paperback, and closed it for the last time, i tend to sit and reflect on what i have just read. With my kindle, i either go straight on to the next book (if i'm not tired) or just turn it off and go to sleep.
Canary, yes, I had a compact camera with a zoom lens, but it was recently stolen, so I went in search of another.
There are basically none left. All the manufacturers have given up on them and all give the same explanation: people use their phones instead - even though the phones offer nothing like the zoom lens.
I found an online retailer with a couple left and I've ordered one, but it cost twice what my last one did, because of the rarity. And when I looked this morning, the price of the last one left had jumped by another £50. The price bots know what they're doing!
This is just compact cameras, the more expensive high-end cameras are still being made. But a whole genre of compact/zooms has just vanished in the last year.
For me, it depends on the book. Fiction is mostly kindle as I can read anywhere, and more importantly...I can adjust the font and brightness. I've started several novels recently in book form, but given up as it's hard on my eyes. And, in some cases my hands. So I wait for them to be offered at a reasonable price on kindle.
Cookbooks and anything heavily illustrated have to be in book form...preferably hardback. I love viewing my packed book shelves, it gives me great pleasure. They are full of the books I did read in physical form as I like the reminder of them.
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