Tech | November 12, 2010 | 2 comments

My new library card--or how the library is contributing to the death of the book.

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2 comments // My new library card--or how the library is contributing to the death of the book.

  • dougbrun
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      dougbrun  

    • Long live the trees. I'm not a Luddite, have a Kindle, embrace change. But I am concerned about loss of tradition, as it relates to a culture. I've spent a lot of time in "developing" countries. The loss of tradition never seems to bode well for the long term. Books, apart from those other things you mention, phone books, catalogs, are a traditional means of communication, art and cultural identification. How the disappearance of books, aside from the commercial and environmental, aspect might/will affect a culture interests me. I see tradition closely liked philosophically with meaning. Man, who'd 'a thought I'd get rolling before the coffee is even done! Thanks for the comment.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  

    • So let the book die, along with newspapers, magazines, phone books, catalogs, junk mail, and all of the other mass-produced wood pulp.

      Get your information digitally, and let the trees live!

    • 1 year ago
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