On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I am intrigued why there is an interest in physical books these days. > Pretty much everywhere I look ( from the Pasteur Institute in Paris > to the UCL and Kings College here in London ) the libraries are all > scaling back, dropping periodicals in physical media and moving to > digital formats. Even most course-ware is preferred in digital > formats these days. The Pasteur institute has even gone to the > extent of reducing to almost half their library floor space! > > I don't mean to be negative, but just wondering what the state of > play in Delhi is at the moment.
I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much easier to read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day when all you can get is digitised books, unless digital paper technology has advanced at least a few order of magnitude by then. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
