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Meanwhile, many real-world libraries are moving forward with the assumption that physical books will play a much-diminished or potentially nonexistent role in their efforts to educate the public.
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No. Not everyone has the patience to read thousands of pages on a computer screen. Much as I love the internet, there's no way I can give up real books and photocopied university readings. I need to underline, highlight and doodle on the margin, you know? And it seems like a lot of students are still like this. You might say,
but you live in a Third-World country. It's different. Nonsense. I lived in high-tech Tokyo. Students still need books. I only know one student who uses e-books extensively. But he's a genius and can absorb math, physics and engineering textbooks inside his head. Not everyone is like him.
The library with actual books disappearing is a false alarm. It will evolve, yes, but books will not disappear. Unless we are in Fahrenheit 451.