Points taken, Mark. I want to hold a book, myself, still, but there
will soon be more devices & reasons to have at least one of them, for
many such as you (or whomever).
Doug
On 21-Jan-10, at 1:38 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> The device itself is way too expensive but will probably come down.
> It will never replace the pleasure of books and libraries for me. On
> the other hand, as the books available increase convenience for
> research will be overwhelmingly improved. It took me three years of
> constant searching to find the books I needed for my Cuban
> anthology. Some I never found. Even if I'd had interlibrary loan
> available the situation would not have been greatly improved. I of
> course was luckier than most, because of the concentration of great
> libraries in the northeast. At some point the collection of Cuba's
> central library will be digitized, along with all the other major
> libraries. Wow.
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