User talk:Sharlenebirds

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The Death of Books
Not for a very long time. One example: the book teaching you how to play an instrument - or the book containing music for you to play. You going to hold a Kindle while you need both hands on the instrument? Are you going to use one in the bath? I do a lot of reading and writing in the bath. Books cope with steam. Electronics often don't. Can a hand-held device cope with illustrated books? Eye-strain comes to mind, not to mention the difficulty of seeing the details in a picture. Long ago, someone probably said books would never replace scrolls. He was wrong, because scrolls are inconvenient and expensive. Books are cheap and can be dropped (preferably not in the bath) without damage. Anyway, nice bit of writing even though it's probably going to be deleted as not encyclopaedic - and though I consider it's wrong... Peridon (talk) 23:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

suggestions
there's lots of things to do here  DGG (talk) 06:06, 18 February 2009 (UTC)