"Skeet" McD
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V.C. Brunswick said:I fear that many of the dusty, musty, yellow-paged, frayed-covered old books that we love so dearly will never be on Kindle. I know that's probably the case with many of the books that I like to read.
Dear V.C.: you might be right...but I remember thinking exactly the same thing in the early 80s about CDs...they'd NEVER reissue many of the obscure things I loved so. Well, in amazingly short order...they had released them (with very, very few exceptions) and the market was flooded with even MORE obscure items which never would have seen the light of day except for the change in technology. So, really....who knows?
As an analog...take a look at GoogleBooks. Need to see the full text of a quite rare 1870s professional baker's cookbook published in Chicago, but only have a short quote to find it by? It's there....as are a zillion things which you once would have had to travel the country and/or world to view in scattered libraries. Whether this material will become available on Kindle or not....again: who knows. But that it's liable to become easier and easier to access it by some portable electronic device is, I'd say, almost a certainty.
Having said all that....personally, I can't see my buying or using a Kindle; on the other hand, I never saw myself owning an iPod either...and that changed my life.
Bottom line: at least for those of us who grew up using them, nothing will ever take the place of a book. But, in large measure, this may be because of our personal memories of book usage. As that becomes a smaller and smaller part of "kids today"'s experience...they may feel differently. There will always be some place for books, I think...in the same way that video did not make movie theaters disappear; they're just a different experience.
"Skeet"