Unkie, have you heard of http://www.jennyscheinman.com/store.php?

 

You paper waster!!

its the 21st century, the interweb offers you pdfs!

 

books will never go digital, not completely. i love books.

 

 

I do. My cables cost more than your iPhone.

 

Buy some art.

 

Heard of? Yes. Heard? No.

Oddly enough, I think I might've worked with her many moons ago. . . unknowingly at the time. . .

 

Waste?

Hmm. . . the acquisition of used books invokes a second usage on a nominal, and renewable resource. Once the book has been read twice, the carbon footprint of manufacture (being a one-time instance per book) is then halved.

You, on the other hand, will be consuming energy indefinitely to maintain a book that isn't even yours (oh yes, modern digital books received the same "love offering" as music. . . good luck with that).

Plus, if the power goes out, you're up shit creek.

And you can't burn bad .pdfs for warmth. . .

 

It's why I own Vinyl records. There's a fetishistic quality to owning the "hard copy" of the item. . .

. . . some volumes will continue to be hard-bound. . . hell, some even with leather.

 

Bezos is going to make his money in storage services. The books are an afterthought.