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To: abb

Unless you’re reading a book on carpentry, farming or a Chilton’s guide to your 1998 Chevy Lumina.

Books, the paper kind, ARE HERE TO STAY.


34 posted on 07/20/2010 1:48:28 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE
Unless you’re reading a book on carpentry, farming or a Chilton’s guide to your 1998 Chevy Lumina. Books, the paper kind, ARE HERE TO STAY.

Actually, acid-based paper is not very durable. Check out a fifty-year old paperback and see how brittle are the pages. True, it can be archived, but it takes some expertise.

All that said, I myself LOVE books. Here I sit in my home office surrounded by shelves and boxes overflowing with books. I have a Nat Geo collection that goes back to about 1939.

I posted the article for discussion and debate purposes. It has done that, LOL!

38 posted on 07/20/2010 1:54:54 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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