Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Galadriel

No way are books going to vanish. An ipad simply does not have the charm or cosy feeling about curling up with a nice book. And heck, who could live without good ol' libraries? They're so lovely and calming.
I'd say whoever said that books are going to evaporate is completely off his rocker, and does not at ALL understand what people actually want.

Like I said, it won't be overnight, and it'll only happen when e-readers become good enough to do everything a book can, and then some. So... they'll be books.

Originally Posted by davem

computers/websites are not merely a 'different' form of the book - they are something entirely different & the approach to producing & telling the story is entirely different. A generation (maybe two or three away) brought up entirely on e-texts/websites will not 'get' a book like LotR in the way we do, because 'books' will not carry the same meaning or relevance to them

Content is far more important than the medium in which it's delivered– especially when we're dealing with text in each case. So, um... I'm afraid I think you're quite wrong. (Sorry if I'm starting to look like The Downer Who Always Contradicts Davem; I don't have a vendetta against you, mate, it's just the way the topics have been going at the moment.)