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I Prefer Real Books Over Digital Books

I have a laptop, I have a tablet and a phone and I enjoy using all three. But please, give me a book that I can hold and feel as I flick through it's pages. The wonderful smell of new books fresh off the press, the musky scent of the old with so much history behind, them making me wonder about the kind of people who sat reading them so long before.

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lasergraph · 70-79, M

I doubt that e-books will ever completely replace printed versions but they will substantially reduce their numbers simply because of cost. Distribution of an e-book (according to Amazon) is less than 50 cents. A printed book cost between $2.00 to $5.00 just in print production cost. The pre-production cost would be similar even though formatting is different. The libraries of the future may look a lot different.