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   From: dalek_killer@excite.com   
      
   skenderbeu@ilirus.com (Gjergj Kastrioti) wrote:   
      
   > umberto eco asks:   
   > >  > Will the new electronic media make books obsolete?   
   >   
   > fwiw, i say yes...   
   > printing is a new technology, but it has reached a moment in time when   
   > it will evolve sensitively. printing, as we know it, will survive only   
   > as a form of art in itself. cave scratching evolved into parchment,   
   > which became palimpsests, then icons, further into paintings, and now   
   > back to grafitti; the same will happen to printing - people will go   
   > back to print books with golden and beautiful letters, just for the   
   > sake of printing...   
      
   When the information age began, and the internet was becoming the big   
   thing out there Everyone was saying that it spelt the end of print. Yet   
   during that time there has been more things printed on paper than there   
   has ever been. There was more magazines coming out and more books. I   
   don't bellieve that there will ever be an end of books, and not for the   
   sake of art of what a book can be. The electronic book can never replace   
   what a printed book is because the media of the ebook is not as pleasing   
   to people to use. there is a softness to a book that you don't get from   
   a PDA or laptop computer.   
      
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