all books are worthless, they should be destroyed once you've scanned what inside it..
Counter: There's also ink, paper, the scent, the feelings, the heaviness, the thickness, the roughness, etc you can get from a book but you can't from an e-book. I remember Shiomiya Shiori from Kami nomi also has an answer for this, and so does my sister.
I believe you were quoting Katsuragi Keima and while I can't quite quote Shiomiya, I can point out she had an answer for it.
And you can read them when the electricity/internet inevitably fucks up, they are unhackable, don't get viruses, and all you need to work one is light and the ability to read. Books: they always work. Unless you get them wet, but then neither do computers.
And you can read them when the electricity/internet inevitably fucks up, they are unhackable, don't get viruses, and all you need to work one is light and the ability to read. Books: they always work. Unless you get them wet, but then neither do computers.
On the other hand, books have many more ways they can get damaged. Que spilling. Que that one nasty mouse that ate 3 pages of my LOTR parody book... FUCK YOU MOUSE!
On the other hand, books have many more ways they can get damaged. Que spilling. Que that one nasty mouse that ate 3 pages of my LOTR parody book... FUCK YOU MOUSE!
That's because you weren't taking care of your books. I myself have some books that are originally my granparents and until now, although the pages turned yellow but is still in good condition for being over 35~40 years. I have some Manga that I bought about 20 years ago too. Not in a good condition like my grand parents' ones, but having the cover worn out and some pages lost a bit in their corners, they are still in good condition. It's all how you keep the books.
On that note, I believe you can almost drop a book anywhere but you can't quite do that to a tablet or a smart phone.
That's because you weren't taking care of your books. I myself have some books that are originally my granparents and until now, although the pages turned yellow but is still in good condition for being over 35~40 years. I have some Manga that I bought about 20 years ago too. Not in a good condition like my grand parents' ones, but having the cover worn out and some pages lost a bit in their corners, they are still in good condition. It's all how you keep the books.
On that note, I believe you can almost drop a book anywhere but you can't quite do that to a tablet or a smart phone.
Don't blame me, that book got damaged before I was born. Still, fuck that thrice-damned mouse. I just hope that it was the cat that got to it and spent a while killing it. It's right at the punchline of the story...
Don't blame me, that book got damaged before I was born. Still, fuck that thrice-damned mouse. I just hope that it was the cat that got to it and spent a while killing it. It's right at the punchline of the story...
Also, the same can be said for digital data.
That's so.... No wonder then. I would pay for a cat to do just that to such mice too.
But you are underestimating digital data. Let's say, they corrupt. Sometimes, they corrupt in the way you can't restore them in any mean. Like a text file of almost 500MB, I can't recall the number of pages, turned into just a single line of gibberish, no, half a line of gibberish when it corrupted. Picture files, well, mostly, they will only be blackened out the top or the bottom, but those are then saved as permanent part of the picture, ruining it. On rarer cases, they become "Unable to prepare preview" or "No preview available" or just Windows' loading error image. Other kind respond with "File is corrupted and unable to open". And even if the file doesn't corrupt, there's a chance a darn virus from somewhere eat it up. Say, like one of those viruses ran amok on Google sometimes ago, about 2 or 5 years, I don't know. They get into the system by browsing google.com. I had a hard time dealing with them. Even though all they did was eat up my browser's files making them unable to run, they got in that way. Then lastly, physical storing devices for those digital data. They are more delicate than what you think. Just leave them there and they will eventually start malfunctioning. Not to say when they come into physical impacts. Just a little scratch on a digital disk can cause you to lose all the data in there. A scratched SIM card can make your mobile dead like a brick. I can go on with those examples.
All those are what happened to me or I saw with my eyes or had to deal with. Sure digital is great since you can store much more in the same amount of space. But the point is sstill there, sometihngs justs can't be beaten about reading books using printed or written books.
You all seem to forget that it's laughably cheap to makes copies of digital data compared to copying physical books, especially if you want to keep the quality high. And with enough copies, it becomes virtually impossible to lose something. Even having the same book on two distinct drives already makes it quite resilient: if your flash card fails, you copy the book from your PC to a new one and then you have a backup copy again. And then there is a whole range of cloud store services, RAID arrays designed to do exactly this and many more things.
So, if you are careful enough, a digital book will probably live for much longer and retain a better shape than a paper one. If you are not, well, then it's as possible to contract a computer virus as it is to rip a few pages from a book and drop the rest into a bathtub.
You all seem to forget that it's laughably cheap to makes copies of digital data compared to copying physical books, especially if you want to keep the quality high. And with enough copies, it becomes virtually impossible to lose something. Even having the same book on two distinct drives already makes it quite resilient: if your flash card fails, you copy the book from your PC to a new one and then you have a backup copy again. And then there is a whole range of cloud store services, RAID arrays designed to do exactly this and many more things.
So, if you are careful enough, a digital book will probably live for much longer and retain a better shape than a paper one. If you are not, well, then it's as possible to contract a computer virus as it is to rip a few pages from a book and drop the rest into a bathtub.
That is true, yes. I also suspect that will be how books in future are known. But still, right now, a printed book, a proper one, still give many people many side sensations.
You all seem to forget that it's laughably cheap to makes copies of digital data compared to copying physical books, especially if you want to keep the quality high. And with enough copies, it becomes virtually impossible to lose something. Even having the same book on two distinct drives already makes it quite resilient: if your flash card fails, you copy the book from your PC to a new one and then you have a backup copy again. And then there is a whole range of cloud store services, RAID arrays designed to do exactly this and many more things.
So, if you are careful enough, a digital book will probably live for much longer and retain a better shape than a paper one. If you are not, well, then it's as possible to contract a computer virus as it is to rip a few pages from a book and drop the rest into a bathtub.
That's because you weren't taking care of your books. I myself have some books that are originally my granparents and until now, although the pages turned yellow but is still in good condition for being over 35~40 years. I have some Manga that I bought about 20 years ago too. Not in a good condition like my grand parents' ones, but having the cover worn out and some pages lost a bit in their corners, they are still in good condition. It's all how you keep the books.
On that note, I believe you can almost drop a book anywhere but you can't quite do that to a tablet or a smart phone.
I actually prefer yellow books (Not that I make them that way, though) because the smell is delicious and absorbs you in happiness
I'm so jealous of you, Akyuu...Last time, when I went to buy books......is what happened, you see.Wait...do I already have this book...?But I don't want to lose the chance to buy it...Wh-what do I do? I can't remember...
