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Old 12th Jul 2021, 6:18 pm   #50
duncanlowe
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Default Re: The end of physical media.

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Originally Posted by Vicboduk View Post
" I can open a 200 year old book as easily as one published last week, which is of course not the case with digital files."

Vic
To be fair, that's not quite true. Paper deteriorates. Bindings disintegrate. Ink can fade. Not suggesting that digital media are better in any way, simply that books are also not immune to ageing.
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