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Home Libraries vs. eBooks

Home Libraries

First Posted: 06/20/11 02:35 PM ET Updated: 08/20/11 06:12 AM ET

The Independent:

"I've not actually read any of them. I just love the bindings." So said the actress Davinia Taylor earlier this year when she decided to put her house on the market – complete with its carefully-sourced collection of classic books.

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"I've not actually read any of them. I just love the bindings." So said the actress Davinia Taylor earlier this year when she decided to put her house on the market – complete with its carefully-sou...
"I've not actually read any of them. I just love the bindings." So said the actress Davinia Taylor earlier this year when she decided to put her house on the market – complete with its carefully-sou...
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Konnie
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10:43 AM on 06/21/2011
as someone who adores opening a new book or discovering an old treasure, sadly no. it's going to be generational...........as is everything................there will be a few diehards........those who grew up with parents who own books. it is more effiecient, greater access, space saving, etc. etc.etc. as wikipedia replaced the need for a printed, bound version of encyclopedia brittanica, and HP has more news than my local newspaper.............all things in their time. I grew up in our local carnegie library, curled up in one of those green leather club chairs on the balcony. i always dreamed of living there........
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naschkatze
A free man creates himself.
03:42 PM on 06/20/2011
Real books will survive in this house. My husband and I are old, and many of our books constitute our life stories. Then there are the others we have been collecting to read in old age.
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Skyhawk
When I write one it'll appear here.
02:25 PM on 06/20/2011
If you have to to find or out of print works then home libraries aren't going away.
01:52 PM on 06/20/2011
We've braced ourselves to thin the ranks and then lived to regret some of the losses, bitched and complained when moving them (ditto the moving men), and seriously dragged our feet when unpacking and shelving them, but those full bookshelves are the story of our lives and a powerful store of wealth that has nothing to do with money. Don't want to imagine living in a world--or a home--without walls and stacks of books.