Fahrenheit 451 is now an e-book. Book burning just got easier.

E-books are convenient, but, call me old fashioned, I love physical media. I certainly hope e-books and services like Steam don't kill physical media in the future.

For those of you who haven't read Fahrenheit 451, it's about a world where the gov't burn all books and everyone just watches TV, or something like it, all day. People are sent to jail if they are found with a book. The gov't controls all information and people are basically now sheep.

Withembedded programslike Carrier IQ coming to the surface, we should all be careful of a full transition to digial formats. With a click of a button entire libraries of information could be vaporized. What do you guys think about this transtion to digial media?

Edit: Here's a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968500

Fahrenheit 451 is a terrific book.

Oh, the irony. Ray Bradbury hated technology.CRS98

Oh, the irony. Ray Bradbury hated technology.CRS98

we should all be careful of a full transition to digial formats. With a click of a button entire libraries of information could be vaporized. What do you guys think about this transtion to digial media?

EsYuGee

I'm pretty sure paper books are still going to exist. But yeah I see what you mean.

With a click of a button entire libraries of information can be copied and safely stored over and over again.

It was a great book, but at least people will still be reading it... Personally though, I hate the idea of "e books", as I much prefer having a physical collection of books.

Kinda ironic since the book was about old media forms dying and been replaced with new ones.

I never liked the idea of e-books until I actually tried them out. I still like to buy physical book depending on what kind of book it is but I really like the convenience of e-books. In the context of Fahrenheit 451, it is kind of scary thinking about how easily someone can just delete books by the hundreds, but there are always physical copies and other digital copies of the book in circulation so I have no fear of books being destroyed in the future. I will probably buy Fahrenheit 451 for my, it has been a long time since I last read it

With a click of a button entire libraries of information can be copied and safely stored over and over again.

Baranga