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comment by NotSoTrue
NotSoTrue  ·  4350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Print books face their final chapter.

It's one of the things that has to go really. Now, hold on, don't call me a monster just yet. I love the real books, the one with the fresh paper smell, brown pages due to age and leather covers (I love leather covers). But due to unavailability and price it's hard to obtain everything you read physically. It takes 10 minutes to get a free digital book, and it takes several days to find if book stores in your town have what you need then spend some time on amazon or ebay looking to buy it online, then wait for delivery. I'd absolutely love for physical books to be just as easy to find as digital were, but it's impossible. That's why this will go out in the history.