It’s sad that I can’t read a simple blog entry without thinking about how the fact that an old book smells acrid means that it is in fact acidic and going brittle and should probably be deacidified pronto before it disintegrates, as well as the fact that you can indeed spill coffee on a digital book.
I’m not convinced that a digital book could beat a book for random access. The big advantage of the codex over the scroll is random access, but the Web (for example) takes us back to the era of the scroll. A computer screen, no matter how much it tries to look like flipping pages, just can’t quite match the utility (and availability) of a place-holding finger.
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