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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2425747, member: 19463&quot;]Pretend as you wish but the current trend to electronic everything will make what we now call archaeology lacking in artifacts to dig up in the future.&nbsp; I would like to be the fly on the wall in a few hundred years when they try to decipher the only surviving vinyl of some tune which one of us made into an ashtray in high school shop.&nbsp; Of course they may not recognize it as an ashtray by then but candy dishes may be just as politically incorrect by then. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have friends who read books on e-readers that were published e-only.&nbsp; I like online color photos by the thousands over books with same size black and whites of plaster casts.&nbsp;&nbsp; My wife is a retired librarian who resided over the sale of her branch&#039;s card catalogs when those went digital.&nbsp; Now half the books she reads are electronic borrowed from the library.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I remember loving to go to brick and mortar bookstores to see what was on the remainder tables.&nbsp; Back then, selections included good books that had not sold all the copies printed.&nbsp; I bought all the Greek Coins by Anthony they had and gave/sold them to others who wanted the book.&nbsp; Today those tables are filled with &#039;made to be remaindered&#039; titles and &#039;print on demand&#039; technology has really cut back on the stacks of cheap books worth owning.&nbsp; Technology has changed everything in life to some degree but some of the changes carry both good and bad features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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