As I was looking for something to say about ebooks, I stumbled across this article. What immediately stuck out to me was its title “Don’t Burn Your Books–Print Is Here to Stay”. These days, it seems like ebooks are continuing to increase in popularity, however, I can’t help but hope that traditional books will always be around. As I was reading the article, this statement surprised me: “By 2015, one media maven predicted a few years back, traditional books would be gone.” While ebooks do make reading much more convenient and accessible, I would never have gone so far to say that by the time I would be graduating college, traditional books would be a thing of the past. I think that while ebooks have there benefits, traditional books will always have a certain appeal to them as well. Abby mentioned in her comment to this post, “Can we look to our past to predict our future? Do people consider books technology?” which led me to the question:
with technology rapidly developing and ever-changing, do people expect the same from books?
are people getting bored by traditional books?
In my opinion, although the content is what truly matters, traditional books are what make reading such a peaceful experience. Other mediums of reading add too many distractions. I find myself occasionally using reading as a distraction. I don’t want to be distracted from it. (If that makes sense).
I believe that traditional books will always be present and play a role in society. The fact that it is almost 2015 and yet traditional books are still extremely prevalent shows that they are more valued than had been previously thought. Obviously many people still find paper books to be appealing, and I believe that this will continue to be the case in the future.
It is very difficult to answer this question today. We will need much more time before we can make an educated guess. However, it does not seem as if books will completely be supplanted. They have become an integral part of our society. Removing them completely would require massive changes in almost all areas of modern life.
Can we look to our past to predict our future? Were there any other products that seemed integral to society only to become extinct later? Do people consider books technology? Technology is ever changing and individual products are always being updated or else they fall out of favor.