Kevin DeYoung has a great post about why real books will never die. Here are a few of his thoughts:
"The other problem with ebooks is their bland sameness. This is why I
can’t make it much farther than two books on any electronic device. The
books don’t feel like anything. The font is the same and the white space
is the same. There is no variance in paper or size or weight. Each
book, when read on an ereader, loses its personality. I can’t quite
explain it, but I simply couldn’t read the new Jeeves and Wooster book I
downloaded for my iPad. On my computer screen–looking and feeling like
the last book I read–there was no joy in Wodehouse, no novelty, no new
experience to be had. It was just another PDF or Word document sent my
to inbox.
"Books have not been around forever. There are other ways to put words
together on paper, papyrus, or cow’s hide. So it’s possible something
else will come along to take the book down from the shelf. But it won’t
be the iPad I’m using right now. It won’t be the laptop on which I’ve
written books and blogs and sermons. In a virtual world, with all its
ethereal convenience, there will be many–an increasing number I
predict–who long for what is real. Something solid. Something you can
hold. Something that hangs around even when you are finished with it.
Something like a book.
"And kind of like an old friend."
You can read the entire post here.
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