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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Wandering Connecticut
Posts: 9,294
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^ NO. Some people like the Kindle, etc., but there's something tangible and symbolic to most people about holding, owning, reading a paper-and-cardboard-and-glue BOOK. Same thing with magazines: most magazines are available for free online, but the magazine industry is booming. You can read online almost any issue of the New Yorker that's ever been published - including the new issue - and yet millions of people still buy it on the newsstand. There's something comforting about a book or a magazine - something decidedly lo-tech and unassuming, and I think that alone sparks something within most people.
A dodgy, obtuse answer, I know, but I think you get what I mean.
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