Will books be extinct soon?

Between waching the movie "Farenheight 451" and listening to instructors in the English department complain that people can't write good because no one reads books anymore, I'm really starting to think that books will be extinct soon. That's why I'm stashing all of my books in a top-secret location. Who else thinks books will be obsolete?

books will never die. The format might change but they will always exist.lycrof

School books cost more for students to buy rather than downloading the material online for free.

Therefore school books at least will always exist because it's a multi million dollar industry.

books will never die. The format might change but they will always exist.lycrof

I thought of the same thing. But then I realized how much words, meanings, phrases, etc......, change when you're reading stuff in the cyber-world, which many people claim is the next "format" of reading and writing. Just wait till books are titled "NOOTMGKWTIW", which translates to: "No One Older Than My Grandparents Knew What The Internet Was"

Books printed on paper may well die out within our lifetimes. As portable computers become more widespread and easy to use. I'm guessing we could soon see a portable device just for books. It would have an A5 size screen to match that of the average novel and you would turn the pages with buttons. And you would download any books you liked from the internet for a lot cheaper than a hard copy. You can already illegally download a lot of books (I don't, btw) so that will be followed soon by legal downloads, in the same way that iTunes followed Napster.

School books cost more for students to buy rather than downloading the material online for free.

Therefore school books at least will always exist because it's a multi million dollar industry.

letswastemoney

My school doesn't have textbooks. We have CDs.

Books printed on paper may well die out within our lifetimes. As portable computers become more widespread and easy to use. I'm guessing we could soon see a portable device just for books. It would have an A5 size screen to match that of the average novel and you would turn the pages with buttons. And you would download any books you liked from the internet for a lot cheaper than a hard copy. You can already illegally download a lot of books (I don't, btw) so that will be followed soon by legal downloads, in the same way that iTunes followed Napster.

chutup

That wont happen. Those companies want to make us pay and they will do everything they can to keep the traditional paper textbooks going. You pay at least $500 or more every quarter in a college for textbooks. Why would those companies do anything that would stop the cash flow for them?

Between waching the movie "Farenheight 451" and listening to instructors in the English department complain that people can't write good because no one reads books anymore, I'm really starting to think that books will be extinct soon. That's why I'm stashing all of my books in a top-secret location. Who else thinks books will be obsolete?

jt222_us

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Between waching the movie "Farenheight 451" and listening to instructors in the English department complain that people can't write good because no one reads books anymore, I'm really starting to think that books will be extinct soon. That's why I'm stashing all of my books in a top-secret location. Who else thinks books will be obsolete?

krazykillaz

Haha. I was going to comment on that as well.

The smart keep getting smarter and stupid keep getting stupider. That's all I have to say to answer your question.

No. Never!

In the worst case scenario, we'll give the books to monkeys.

if they do, I'll sell mine on ebay and be teh richWhicker89

then the government will come hunt you down and make you a prisoner for "distribution of illegal literature"