if paper books no longer were available

[Blackking]

Hoe would that affect society, if at all?

 

[tmonster]

Hoe would that affect society, if at all?

who you calling a hoe? SLUT!

 

[the cac mamba]

little to none

my dad teaches and theyre already getting away from textbooks i guess

and hopefully it would put a dent in the college textbook racket

 

[Blackout]

Nothing at all.

Its all information stored in a certain way that you extract via reading.

Whether its online or in a book its the same shyt.

Its only if you lose information which can happen to both books and online sources is when you have an issue.

 

[ORDER_66]

It wouldnt make a difference and still exist in a niche market... alot of people still prefer paper books to electronic...

 

[Blackking]

If all information is electronic doesn't that take away from the experience and lower attention span .

My son's do everything on tablets N shyt.

You don't have to stay focused and use book marks and maintain different books. You just pull shyt up and scan read, hit youtube watch some random shyt , then maybe look back at the information.

They also say certain light sources before sleep affect memory and sleep
....Natural and soft lights that you'd use for books 》staring at screens for books.

Plus scientists claim that paper books help with comprehension and and reading reduces stress by almost 70%

 

[Blackking]

who you calling a hoe? SLUT!

little to none

my dad teaches and theyre already getting away from textbooks i guess

and hopefully it would put a dent in the college textbook racket

Nothing at all.

Its all information stored in a certain way that you extract via reading.

Whether its online or in a book its the same shyt.

Its only if you lose information which can happen to both books and online sources is when you have an issue.

It wouldnt make a difference and still exist in a niche market... alot of people still prefer paper books to electronic...

I meant how'..


And reading on electric devices fukks with our God given
Human evolution.

It messes with our sense of control and serendipity. .... along with memory. Our brains have actually evolved circuits to help us read and create images based on word/symbol placement on pages.....
Electric devices can't successfully duplicate that and it fukks w us. Because it affects our sensory experience .. it affects how or if we remember it.

Reading long, literary sentences sans links and distractions is actually a serious skill that you lose if you don't use it. Before the Internet, the brain read in a linear fashion, taking advantage of sensory details to remember where key information was in the book by layout.

As we increasingly read on screens, our reading habits have adapted to skim text rather than really absorb the meaning. A 2006 study found that people read on screens in an "F" pattern, reading the entire top line but then only scanning through the text along the left side of the page. This sort of nonlinear reading reduces comprehension and actually makes it more difficult to focus the next time you sit down with a longer piece of text.

Tufts University neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf worries that "the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing." Individuals are increasingly finding it difficult to sit down and immerse themselves in a novel. As a result, some researchers and literature-lovers have started a "slow reading" movement, as a way to counteract their difficulty making it through a book.

 

[ill]

If all of our "books" are online, they can be eliminated with the press of a keystroke. Its much easier to delete digital files than it is to burn a million books. I think hard copies of books will always have a place in our society.

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

It would effect me. I love books in hard copy .

 

[Blackking]

If all of our "books" are online, they can be eliminated with the press of a keystroke. Its much easier to delete digital files than it is to burn a million books. I think hard copies of books will always have a place in our society.

You think?

 

[Poitier]

1. It has been shown that reading on a screen limits retention

2. information would be much easier to distort

 

[ill]

You think?

Throughout history the powers at the top have burned books of knowledge as a way to stop dissent. I think diversifying where we keep that knowledge (books) is of the utmost importance. Digital files are bound to be obsolete in the future. Just think if we only kept books on 3.5 inch floppy drives lol. Hard copies of books are only vulnerable to natural decay or disaster (fire). If all your files are in the cloud, and someone hacks that cloud, you lost everything. So you usually also back up to an external hard drive just to be safe. Same thing with books, IMO

 

[Stay Seeking]

If electricity wasn't an option on Earth anymore, we'd be fukked if it wasn't for print.

 

[Vandelay]

This is my tinfoil hat responding.

I find it some what disturbing that books could be edited, restricted or deleted if we went completely digital. Although satire in a sense, I find that it reeks of 1984 and Brave New Worldisms.

You have states like Texas that have tried to rewrite how detrimental Slavery was in text books. Imagine how much easier it would be when everything is digital.

Have you ever tried to find an old file on the internet after an update is released. This is the same thing.