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Do You Read On The Train?  by: Tony Dean I don't know about you, but I see more people with PDAs on trains reading things on there instead of reading paperbacks, or newspapers. Is this the future we are looking at? Will newspapers of a morning be unobtainable anymore? Will we get our daily news via the PDA? Perhaps connected to a "Smartphone" for downloading the newspaper to the PDA? Or will "Smartphones" take over the task of the PDA? Will newsprint not be available in a few years time, also magazines at the bookstall? Will public libraries not be a place you will go to and sit down and read? Or will they be a network hub with servers all over the place for people to instantly download, not only the daily newspaper, but any textbook, manual or book, straight onto their "Smartphone" and read things on the move? The saving on paper and ink would be enormous, as would the manpower, distribution resources, bookbinding for we could all read digitally, future generations will not know what a paperback is or a newspaper, unless they get saved in museums. The race has been on for some time to preserve our modern culture in digital form, all the classic story tellers who are now in the 'public domain' are being transposed into digital ebooks so future generations will be still able to read them. So many books have been 'pulped' in the paper mill it is still unknown how many authors works have been destroyed right to the last copy. The race is on too, for the thousands of collectors of 'first editions' by popular authors, who scan every shelf at the second hand bookstore or market stall and even it seems, at the local Oxfam charity shops! The word is that the Oxfam charity in the UK took over thirteen million pounds sterling in the year 2003 just in old books donated to their stores. I find this totally incredible, but their figures don't lie. About The Author Tony Dean is a published author and runs a web site selling Ebooks and Software. To subscribe to his ezine send blank email to: ebook-sales@aweber.com. His web site is: http://www.ebook-sales.com This article was posted on October 31, 2004 Read More Articles from the "Computers and Internet" Category: Consulting Contracts with National Service Organizations- Good idea? by Joshua Feinberg Remotely Accessing Your Home Computer by John V. W. Howe Buying Used Dell Laptops, PC's and Servers on eBay - How to be successful. by John Gall Data Binding in TierDeveloper by Ann Morris The Evolution Of HP and Epson Inkjet Printers by Niall Roche History Of The Computer; The Emergence Of Electronics by Tony Stockill Ten Steps to Reduce Your Risk of Identity Theft by Howard Goff Video Blogging: How To Share Your Videos by Burt Cotton Buying Laser and Inkjet Printers - 10 Quick Buying Tips by Sally Adams A Short History of Email by Jimson Lee << Back to "Computers And Internet" Index

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