An e-book (short for electronic book and also known as a digital book, ebook, and eBook) is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book...An e-book, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English, is "an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a personal computer or hand-held device designed specifically for this purpose.
Books have been in existence for hundreds of years with many people slaving laboriously to copy written documents over and over, so that a wider audience could have access to these rare and near obsolete gems of knowledge. The process of compiling a book was tedious, parchment to prepare, scribes to write, book binders to put it together etc. Do you think that these literary heroes, forgoing their opportunity to fornicate with slave girls to compile books, deserve to have their legacy defecated on by the money grabbing goblins behind this E-Book technology.
Convenience they say. The ability to 'Read on the go' to keep up with the pace of 'modern living'.
Shut up.
People have been reading and carrying round PHYSICAL books for centuries with no trouble at all. No - one has been inconvenienced or suffered as a result. So someone please tell me, what is the point of having a digital book. You pay as much to get them, and yes they may all be stored beautifully on your ultra hip I-Pad, but I ask you. What is wrong with a book shelf?!
You don't need to have 100 books on your person at once.
The whole thing is a bloody travesty to humanity. Let us pray and hope and plead to whatever god or deity we turn to in times of need, that books do not disappear forever in favour of computer powered ridiculousness.
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