Books to E-books

The Douglass reading for this week is long but interesting. He mainly talks how the future of books might be replaced by the hypertext book and be more interactive.

Death of books?

(The Death of the Book by Ben Ehrenreich by A litquake tumblr)

I believe that that is already starting. I’m an avid reader so I always keep up with the latest book published and so on. My cousin is also an avid reader but she prefer nowadays to read on her ipad since it is easier, quick, and easy to bring. Whenever I ask her about books, she will answer by “Go check it in … website, and download it. It’s not expensive.” This comment is actually very true, e-book is so much cheaper compare to hard-copy book and yes, it is so much easier to have it in one technology i.e. ipad, but for me hard-copy is still the best. There is something in flipping the page and actually holding the book that made me love reading. Compare when I’m on the ipad, I got so distracted in doing other things such as playing and browsing.

SO yeah, book will conform to e-book, that is something that will happen but will it caused the death of a book? I don’t really think so. Adrian himself had mentioned it before that books and hypertext live side-by-side and so I don’t believe in the death of book!