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    Default Margaret Atwood-Three Reasons to Keep Physical Books

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    And let's not forget the package (an aesthetic factor) it comes by, the binding, the cover and duskjacket, and when it's antiquarian, the flavour of a past, the memory of a world and its people whose physical existence lives on in their handling of a book, the milieu the lived, interaction and the grip that left a mark... on so many pages.. all is passed on while their ashes are long since scattered over the elements of the earth.

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    I will never give up physical books. I even print out and bind online articles that I find useful.

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    Couldn't say why, but reading books may actually be a little easier on my eyes than reading a computer screen.
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    I want one of those Kindle e-book readers, but I can only imagine using it for books I don't have room for on my bookshelf or want in digital format for quick reference use.

    I suspect many people, like me, will always buy their favourite and most valued books in physical copy.

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    I am not a materialistic person, but there are two things I have developed an attachment to, viz. my books and my Black Metal media. Both of which I pride myself on having the best collection. If I discovered one who had a superior collection, there is a chance that I would destroy them or their collection – possibly by fire or lightning.

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    Top row: philosophy, second row: classics, third row: medieval & renaissance literature and Religion, fourth row: racial literature, anthropology, science/Theories of Everything, bottom row: Science and History.

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    I will never give up physical books. I even print out and bind online articles that I find useful.
    So do I. I have stacks of Wikipedia articles, Genetic Studies and many books I found online in pdf format, etc., that I printed out at work and bound in plastic covers.
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    If a MAJOR decline occurs I believe it will occur because we are just becoming less literate. I'm pleased to see that Stygian Cellarius has a nice set of classics. Just a hundred years ago, anyone who wanted to be taken seriously in academia knew these works well. In other words, access was not everything. People also wanted these books for the same reason you'd want a nice rug or sleek vase aside from the value of simply consuming the information. I know it sounds cheesy, but they are extensions of Western man's soul. I think a record collection is a good analogy.

    Who do you think values music more? The person with thousands of vinyls IN ADDITION to their downloaded files or the person who is content with an I Tunes membership so they can load new songs onto their shuffle every once in a while?

    If hard books go, I think the reason behind their disappearance will largely be much deeper than a simple aesthetic/convenience issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smaland View Post
    Couldn't say why, but reading books may actually be a little easier on my eyes than reading a computer screen.
    Luminance, display flicker, ambient lighting and your particular vision are all factors in comfort in reading on any medium. There are conditions for proper ergonomics on each medium, and the printed page has the easiest to achieve in terms of vision; hands, neck, and back, have somewhat different complaints which are more common to reading as it is often done in a leisurely position.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stygian Cellarius View Post
    So do I. I have stacks of Wikipedia articles, Genetic Studies and many books I found online in pdf format, etc., that I printed out at work and bound in plastic covers.
    Not so much Wiki for me, but I do print out, highlight and take notes on essays from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy whenever I'm writing an essay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
    Not so much Wiki for me, but I do print out, highlight and take notes on essays from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy whenever I'm writing an essay.
    Thanks for the link

    Here are better resolution pictures of my book shelf. It is difficult to find those IRL that are interested in these things so it is at my pleasure that I post these photos for those that might be.

    One could read the title of every book in the original photos, but the forum reduces the size automatically to where you can only read some (unless there is a way that I am ignorant of to preserve the resolution?). Anyways, if one owned a book I have or spent hours in these sections in the book store, they may be able to ID the book without being able to read the binding – maybe.
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    In return, here's a snapshot of my philosophy (and philosophyish) section. Most of my books are still unsorted since I'm figuring out where to build bookshelves, but these sit atop my computer desk:

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