Comments on: Future of books according to the E http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/04/01/future-of-books-according-to-the-e/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:57:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Colin Henderson http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/04/01/future-of-books-according-to-the-e/#comment-284782 Colin Henderson Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:11:04 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/04/01/future-of-books-according-to-the-e/#comment-284782 I think the Economist may be missing something there, in that final point of your post. One of the things I like about Youtube, is that I can re-live memories of old entertainment, and music from many years ago. Without Youtube, that would never be available to me. In a similar way, digitised books will provide for needs not yet necessarily understood yet, and not necessarily for merely reading from cover to cover. I think the Economist may be missing something there, in that final point of your post.

One of the things I like about Youtube, is that I can re-live memories of old entertainment, and music from many years ago. Without Youtube, that would never be available to me.

In a similar way, digitised books will provide for needs not yet necessarily understood yet, and not necessarily for merely reading from cover to cover.

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