Do you think books will become obsolete?

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English again.

Odd...the number two up above stayed written out but the words "for" and "to" got changed to number symbols....

Are emoticons modern hieroglyphics?

Can the above be considered a form of pidgin English on experimental drugs?

Anyways. Is the above really more efficient for communication? I suppose it is for the person typing. However I can type pretty fast to begin with. But with different styles of keyboards it may be easier and less frustrating to take shortcuts. But what about the person recieving the message? Isn't it important that the other person receives a coherent message that doesn't require a special decoder? Unless you are a spy. Then code away. Personally, I don't like it. And I think I wandered off topic.

My 2 cents. hav a gud dA :)

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  • Shackleford96
    10 years ago | pl

    I couldn't stand to read more than a few sentences of that...

    I hope they don't, screens are bad for the eyes and batteries make me feel guilty...

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    My heart would break.

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  • Holzman_67
    10 years ago

    Not until a computer can simulate that "old book" smell

    I love that.

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  • megadriver
    10 years ago

    Nothing can replace that old book smell and actually holding a book in your hands. Besides, you get a book, you can go to bed, make yourself nice and comfy and read it. With a computer, you have to sit up right for several hours!

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    • Jeaneathean
      10 years ago

      Kindle? (Devil's advocate.....)

      Doesn't mean everything has to be written in shite text speak (or something) like OP's first paragraph.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    10 years ago

    Yes I think so. Ebooks have normal grammar though. Just saying. :)

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  • q25t
    10 years ago

    I wouldn't be all that surprised if physical copies of books did become obsolete at some point in the future. Most of the reason I prefer hard copies is simply because I prefer the feeling of something more solid in my hands. However, newer generations may not have this sense of nostalgia and simply prefer ebooks out of utility.

    Ebooks have the advantage of being smaller, being able to link to external sources, and can contain moving graphics. If these advantages are used to their utmost, I think physical copies of books will eventually be phased out.

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  • Couman
    10 years ago

    What does that have to do with books? (bux?)

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      as a means of communicating ideas
      yes communication
      books have words
      some have pictures
      but most have words

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      • Couman
        10 years ago

        Right... but a book could also be written in that weird shorthand dialect, yes? So even if people starting writing that way exclusively it would have no direct bearing on whether books became obsolete.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I see what you did there.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    10 years ago

    I hope not. I'm hoping to traditionally publish one day and more than one book. It would be disaster to see my artwork as no more than ebooks.

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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    I thought you said boobs and instantly panicked.

    Depending on how you define "obsolete", physical books are obsolete already. E-readers solve lots of objective design flaws with physical books, making paper books the old fashioned solution. Physical book snobs really irritate me, actually. There will always be physical books because there will always be people who will buy them, but as they become less popular people who want them will have to pay more for them because that's how markets work. That doesn't mean paper books aren't obsolete, though.

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    • White__October
      10 years ago

      How dare you think that? My boobs are absolutely not obsolete, I don't know what I were to do without them.

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      • dom180
        10 years ago

        I know. It worried me too. Boobs will never be obsolete.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      poop on the person who thumbed you down. this is a good comment.

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      • RomeoDeMontague
        10 years ago

        Sadly everything will one day be put on a computer not that its really that efficient.

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  • handsignals
    10 years ago

    Are you there God it's me Margret?

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    For most of the world books will become mostly obsolete because the technology is so convenient. However there will 'always' be die hard old schoolers that love the quality of a book: Easier on the eyes, feels more substantial to hold, smells interesting, easier to actually read and flip between pages, etc.

    I love the convenience of my Kindle but it's not quite the same as reading an actual book. It's often hard to see images/charts/graphs clearly and flip between pages.
    But when I travel there's no comparison. I don't want to carry clunky books around. Instead I have one kindle with hundreds of books and documents on there.

    I don't use my laptop to pleasure read because the screen is very hard on my eyes.

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  • candybee
    10 years ago

    try reading Farenheit 451!

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  • kittykat9930
    10 years ago

    I sure hope not! I don't like reading off of a Kindle or any other electronic device that you can read off of, hurts my eyes in a matter of minutes. =/

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