No. Books are the ultimate in portability and don't need to be charged up!

Digital information can be completely erased on a global scale in an eye blink given the right circumstances. If we had another Carrington Event like the one experienced in 1859, every piece of digital equipment, power stations, satellites, transformers….anything not specially shielded from an EMP that powerful would be fried, never to work again. Books would remain unaffected except by time.

You would think that eventually it would all be digital but consider this. Advertisers keep clogging up things worse and worse to the point where doing anything digital is no longer a convenience. With physical media you just do not get commercials and even when there are advertisements they are much easier to skip over.

If advertisers has stayed out of things than yeah everything would be digital but they cannot resist the chance to plop their stupid ads and screw everything up. Therefore books will not become obsolete

I hope not. I like physically holding a book. However, I do appreciate my iPad and book app for the dictionary. It’s a lot quicker than fumbling into another book to find out what a word means.

Not completely, no. Digital readers may increase in popularity, but there will always be paper-books.

no. there may be less printed up, but bookmaking is an art form, and people are tactile.

No, I think that they will be around for a little while longer.

probably. the weight, time to produce, time to ship, costs for all that, plus the fragile nature of paper products (insects attack it, it decays over time, flammable, et al), I'd guess that before much longer books will mostly be viewed first as a poor person's only option, then as a sign of wealthy extravagance.

No, not completely. Not in my lifetime, anyway.

I hope not. I’m not a fan of e readers 🤷🏼‍♀️

I hope not. even if society crumbles into chaos books will still exist, if we make everything digital and then society crumbles into chaos we will lose all of humanity's information and go back to stone age.

I doubt books or computers will be around much longer. Fifty years from now the few people left on this pitiful broken planet will be living in caves and killing each other for a drink of water.

Maybe books but not prints .. Newsprint spread / magazines still offer pleasurable read that digital cannot.

But they are sure under threat of being extinct.

No

i fear so, but i pray not, i love physical books, those e readers don't compare to a paperback or hardback.

that would be fucked up.

@NiftyWhite So what do you think of Henry Cavill & Would You Do Him

Not in our lifetime, but I do think somewhere in the future that will happen sadly

No, but I do think printed books will again become an option only for the rich.

Maybe when enough older than me are dead, and we can get rid of backwards Government

Hang on I'll look it up in the Digital Reading For Dummies book

Nah… don’t think so. Not anytime soon…

I hope so. I can’t stand clutter.

That’s a good question 🤔

I hope not!

I wont

no

No

I hope not

Isn't it already? There's kindle

I do not.

For something to be obsolete it needs to no longer be of any use, this will never be the fact with books.

Digital media can be erased, corrupted and interfered with

No. I certainly hope not anyway. Without them anything can be rewritten at at anytime and people as a whole would have no idea.

No.