{"id":4910,"date":"2010-08-01T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/01\/a-reason-why-paper-books-will\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:04:38","slug":"a-reason-why-paper-books-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/01\/a-reason-why-paper-books-will\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason Why Paper Books Will Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every couple of weeks, there’s another bunch of stories about how e-books are transforming the world, and paper books will soon survive only as collectible fetish objects. It occurred to me this morning that I share a house with a reason why paper books will be around for a while yet, at least in some markets. In fact, I share a house with the cutest<\/em> reason why paper books will be around for a while yet:<\/p>\n

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That’s SteelyKid with an alumni magazine, not a book, but you get the basic idea. And a lot of the time, she’s much less gentle with her reading material:<\/p>\n

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Kate and I have both largely switched to electronic reading, to the point where I stopped in a Barnes and Noble on Friday primarily to get ideas for books to download when I got home (though I still balk at paying hardcover prices for an electronic file, as seems to be the case with a lot of non-fiction). It’s going to be a good long while, though, before SteelyKid is allowed to play with either of our Readers, because we’re not particularly close to having an electronic ready that can stand up to a toddler with a short attention span.<\/p>\n

Paper books, on the other hand, can be thrown, walked on, banged on things, drawn on, crumpled up, have food spilled on them, and still remain more or less readable. Even when she’s managed to rip pages out, it doesn’t affect the entire book, just the one missing page. We don’t have an e-reader yet that can stand up to the punishment that SteelyKid dishes out on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

It’s only a matter of time– she’s got some talking electronic toys that are, sadly, damn near indestructible– but I don’t think we’ll be shutting down the paper mills any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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