http://crain.wordpress.com thoughts from a student of life & the media Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://crain.wordpress.com/comm-166/#comment-852 Kathy Crain Fri, 02 May 2008 16:35:06 +0000 http://crain.wordpress.com/?page_id=55#comment-852 Books will never be usurped by digital technologies. Computers and technology are wonderful; I use them everyday in my work as a media specialist. However, there's nothing like curling up with a book on a cold and rainy day. Ebooks cannot give one the same feeling of turning pages, leisurely thumbing through a picture book, or peeking at the end of a novel to see how it ends. The yellowed pages of historical tomes which help transport one back into history cannot be replaced with a small electrical device made of plastic. Books will never be usurped by digital technologies. Computers and technology are wonderful; I use them everyday in my work as a media specialist. However, there’s nothing like curling up with a book on a cold and rainy day. Ebooks cannot give one the same feeling of turning pages, leisurely thumbing through a picture book, or peeking at the end of a novel to see how it ends. The yellowed pages of historical tomes which help transport one back into history cannot be replaced with a small electrical device made of plastic.

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