To hell with paper!

[Martin Weiss]

Just the other day I managed to track down an out-of print book from Australia. When it arrived, the first thing I had to do was smell it. I just *love* the smell of old books. Part of the reading pleasure is the feeling of good paper, the 3-d quality of a well crafted binding, the sound of the pages turning.

How much use is a Kindle on the toilet ?

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Tutorials, newspapers, magazines, crap - electronic.

Quality literature - paper.

Thanks. :tongue:

 

[Andy Jarosz]

I think you're on to something here, Andy. Just use cash register receipt paper or, even better: very thin metal coated Estar™ ribbon 2 - 3cm wide, and the writing with microscopic laser-etched marking, and the OCR with a 3200+ dpi scanner/reader and I think you have a viable archival medium. Hmmmm...

Rochester, are you listening? NO? (I thought not.)

This would be prohibitively expensive. Once you get into the microscopic level, dust dings and dents come into play.

 

[Brian Petrie]

I think you're on to something here, Andy. Just use cash register receipt paper or, even better: very thin metal coated Estar™ ribbon 2 - 3cm wide, and the writing with microscopic laser-etched marking, and the OCR with a 3200+ dpi scanner/reader and I think you have a viable archival medium. Hmmmm...

Rochester, are you listening? NO? (I thought not.)

And to save on paper/ribbon just enter it into Word and put that on a thumb drive...oh wait..:emote_headwall:

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

A few improvements on "Back to the Future II" clothing and we might have an answer to the toilet problem.

 

[scott william]

Just the other day I managed to track down an out-of print book from Australia. When it arrived, the first thing I had to do was smell it. I just *love* the smell of old books. Part of the reading pleasure is the feeling of good paper, the 3-d quality of a well crafted binding, the sound of the pages turning.

How much use is a Kindle on the toilet ?

I love 'the ninth gate' just because it's about old books. Paper is here to stay for as long as we have it.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Delivery media has nothing to do with content.

We associate established authors with paper because that is how we got their work until "now", and publishers won't ignore that until the distinction becomes meaningless for their goals. But it will come a day when kids will find it ridiculous and impractical to buy their comic books in printed form... That may sound beyond weird, but it will happen.

Maybe mature quantum cryptography practices will be the turning point. If you can provide the necessary trust for collectors to buy digital...

Of course, to be completely over paper we will also need some sort of --gorgeous-- foldable screens, or super bright (and dimmable) projectors that fit in a necklace... something that erases the line at least.

But in the end if I were to write crap it will still be spelled like C-R-A-P on whatever you use to deliver them letters.

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