Paper is better for the brain.
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Remember when children not only had real books, but real toys to play with, real games (I don’t mean organised sports), real friendships etc? An active and inquisitive life and hence real growth of personality and optimism. Even under capitalism, we had hope and things were real. Objects were held. Children sat in bookshops and libraries, turning the pages of books. We went to toyshops and chose toys which exercised hands and brains. I don’t remember anyone just shrugging at everything around them and grumbling “Whatever!”
We were taught history and were close to it. Opening a book we were part of it. We made things, drew, coloured, worked with scissors, glue and cardboard.
But you’ll just say, “Who needs those things when we’ve got virtual?” And that helps the capitalists take away even those things we DID have, even though we were proles.
Barnes and Noble is acquiring used bookstores that are having financial difficulties, which means that they can also scan books and use them for their Nook digital readers.
To scan a book, they must remove the spine of the book using a guillotine and turn it into a PDF.
Kindle writers use Grammarly to check their writing, and old books can be double-checked too by editing them.
Apple has its own book-reading software; it is more polished than Kindle, and it transfers textbooks in colour and PDF. It is like reading a physical book, but the devices are very expensive.
Law students and medical students are using them
There are concerns about their violations on copyrights but some old books are in the public domain
Impact on Rare Authors Like Restif de la Bretonne Vulnerable Editions: Restif de la Bretonne wrote close to two hundred volumes, many of which are rare, fragile, or self-printed historical artifacts from the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary eras in France.Loss of Artifacts: Because large language models require massive datasets of diverse historical prose, antiquarian booksellers have noticed secret bulk buying by tech entities, leading to the permanent loss of unique physical printings.Explore the broader capitalist incentives behind the trend in an analysis from The Journal.” Google
Restif, coined “communism.” His rare originals could be lost.
This reporter sounds like a robot, and they do not understand what is happening. Now, with YouTube, anybody can become a reporter.
She is not reporting properly; they are scanning the books in order to turn them into digital books for Kindle. It is not only Amazon and Barnes and Noble, which are bookstores, is also doing the same thing.
. This format produces more profits than physical books because buyers of the digital format do not own the books; they only have access to the information, which is written or dictated.
Companies that sell iPads or tablets are also making large profits because many school textbooks are becoming digital books; customers must buy the digital format and the devices, and their devices are in colour, and they use retina and 4 K displays or high resolution, which give sharper images.
Kindle is black and white, and they are small to be read in the palm of your hands, and the tablets are in colour, and they are 12 inches long and 4 inches wide, which is the normal size of a university textbook, especially law books, hornbooks and casebooks, and many medical textbooks, which are very expensive .ve
They have a lot of customers because digital books are cheaper than physical textbooks; they can also be found at the university and public libraries, and both must pay a fee ( fee income ) to have access to the digital books.
It is like buying a Microsoft key: you can install the software, but the buyer of the key does not own the software.
It is not free software like Linux or Unix; Apple is free software, but you must buy the hardware, and the hardware is very expensive; it is part of the process to make profits; it is part of the capitalist market system.
Movies are turned into digital format to be downloaded online, and they sell access to the movie through Amazon Prime, and Amazon makes money from access to the movie and buying an Amazon Prime subscription; it is a capitalist process.
Many people buy the movies in digital format because they have been transformed into high-definition and box-letter format or wide format, and they have better picture quality better thanCinemascopee, and they have added closed captions and subtitles. They are buying old movies filmed on celluloid, and there are companies dedicated to repairing them and turning them into colour; they are also making profits, and they are hiring professional people to do this kind of work.s
It is not a right-wing takeover; it has nothing to do with Nazis; that process has existed for many years. It is the normal process of capitalism to produce profit; it is American social romanticism.
Left-wing organisations are doing the same things; they are scanning books and publishing them online instead of having bookstores like in the old days. The company that has copyright over the works of Marx and Engels has also scanned the 52 volumes and put them into digital format.
When Progress Publishers owned them, the whole collection cost around $150.00; now the whole collection costs more than $3,000.00. You can download them for free in PDF format to your desktop or a tablet. They have also sold access to universities.
I know it’s capitalism. And physical books will disappear. Those who think one has a choice are naïve. People like me will have no choice, and I am glad I am not young, so will be dead before then.
I’m also sure that most here are not bothered by it at all.
William Morris is dead, lucky for him.
I have both worlds: Physical and digital books
I am not young either, and I enjoyed my youth, and I do not want to die yet.
I have a lot of work to do, socialists and academic works
I didn’t say I wanted to die, just that I’m glad that I will be dead by the time physical books disappear.
You see, they have been my whole life and my greatest joy, since early childhood.I don’t think that all physical books are going to disappear. Publishing companies will continue printing books, and newspapers will continue printing paper.
They have fired linotypists, but they are using WordPerfect and Microsoft Word to type books, and many writers continue printing books, and bookbinding companies continue fixing old books and binding paperbacks.
Book collectors and bibliophiles are not selling their books; on the contrary, they are taking them to bookbinding companies.
It is like cinematography, cinemas have replaced old projectors with digital laser projection, but small-town theatres continue using old arc voltaic projectors and celluloid films of 35 mm; some are using 70 mm films.
Some collectors are still using 16mm films and projectors.
Cameras are digital, but some photographers prefer 35mm film and black-and-white pictures.
Most stereo equipment is digital, but analogue is coming back, including hybrid, LP vinyl, and cassettes.
In Japan, many old formats still exist, including DAT and reel-to-reel. Much vintage stereo equipment is being refurbished, and old technicians are very busy now
Nostalgia will never vanish from human beings.
I didn’t say I wanted to die, just that I’m glad that I will be dead by the time physical books disappear.
You see, they have been my whole life and my greatest joy since early childhood.——————————————————————————————————
I understand your concern; I am a bibliophile too, and I was surrounded by people who enjoy reading and collecting books. My father, who was not an intellectual, was always reading, and he carried one of his fingers inside a book while he was taking care of his business. He was not a catholic, or a protestant; he was a Freemason. They used to call him: ‘Maestro”, and the whole town respected him
Just a passing thought. Rather ironic that a champion of paper should devote their time to expounding their view on the internet — instead, for instance, of writing articles for publication in the paper Socialist Standard.
I had in fact asked to be removed from the forum, but no one would oblige and ignored my request.
But to concentrate on the thread instead of on me, you’re not bothered by the destruction of old books, are you?
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