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Why Printed Books Will Never Die

Why Printed Books Will Never Die

 

Measured  en masse, the stack of "books I want to read" that sits precariously on the edge of a built-in bookshef in my dining room just about eclipses 5,000 pages, writes Josh Catone in today's Mashable.

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It would be a lot easier if I just downloaded all those books to an iPad or Kindle, he says.

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But there's something about print I can't give up, he writes.  There's something about holding a book and the visceral act of turning a page that can't be matched by pixels on a screen.

 

 

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