Sunday, December 19th, 2004
Google and the death of books…
by Warren
Here’s an article about how Google’s plan to digitize libraries will sound the death knell for books on paper. I don’t know if I buy that; reading a book on a computer, while possible and sometimes necessary, is nothing like sitting down with the ol’ dead tree version. Until you can reproduce the “book” experience, all the prognostication in the world about the imminent demise of books will be as ephemeral as words on a screen.