Books are the oldest way to retain knowledge and the written word aswell as illustartion onto paper. The only other way is to keep knowledge mentally. But lately books have been replaced by the use of E-books. Digital copies of a book and literature decoded down into digital print and bytes. But which is a more important and useful way of reading and recording knowledge.
Books are older than me and all my family. The texture and smell of a book can tell an entire fairy tale or story all on it's own. More than even the words written on the very flesh of the paper couldn't sum up what a single book has went through by time it reached you. The words on a page is only limited by how many trees that can be removed to supply the nutrition to feed the book so it may live. A physical supplies physical representation and physical recognition.
E-books do not focus on the physical only the visual. They are easy to maintain and keep together aswell as better for the enviroment. One kindle can carry hundreds of books inside. But there is no presence in an E-book. When you pick it up all you smell is plastic, the cold presence of it that filters the senses. Machines are easy to destroy aswell, if cracked in the wrong way your books are gone forever unless you retreive it.
In person I believe Books are the best format to store knowledge and information, leaving E-books as a back-up. For if there is no physical representation there is nothing for the words to have meaning behind it in any way.
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