[BC] Paper vs electrons

[Alan Kline]

------ At 09:03 AM 6/27/2006 -0400, The Most Honourable Rich Wood 
wrote: -------

 >It's already begun. The Gutenberg Project has already digitized about
 >17,000 books whose copyrights have expired. Their hope is to digitize
 >everything in print. This has been going on for years. Take a look at
 >www.gutenberg.org

I have, and I admire their efforts, but at that rate it's going to take
several generations, at least, just to scratch the surface.

 >Except for research purposes, it does nothing for me. There's
 >something about the printed word on paper (not including supermarket
 >tabloids) that has an elegance digital will never equal.

I've always found the Weekly World News to be elegant, in a sick sort
of way... ;-)

ak