*sigh
Speed isn't an advantage. If anything it is a push.
hahahaha...Now I am 95% sure that you are NOT an academic of the scientific persuasion...You CAN'T possibly be if you think getting info in a timely manner is not PARAMOUNT...
Think about this example, you are a doctor in an emergency room, you receive a patient, and you are too sure of what is the best most up to date treatment action for this patient...
Are you going to leave the patient, and go look up a book in the hospital library or are you going to pull up your Samsung S4 at the patient's bedside, and look up the best and most up to date treatment action using a medical database that is WIDELY accepted as a gold standard by the medical community...?
If you still don't get it after this example then you are just a stubborn archaic human being...You maybe outdated and paranoid...
Look no further than what happened to music.
The quality of music has not gone down...There is just more music available for people to judge...For example, soul music and classic rock (Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin) died LONG before the internet, because people try to be creative and push the envelope, as a result, the sounds change...
But music is subjective, there is NO way of verifying if one form of music is better than another...You can't design an experiment for that...
Quality of information goes down, the discourse on any given subject can be controlled by one entity, and it's harder to parse legitimate sources from those with agendas.
Dude, the quality of information has NOT gone down...There is just more info available...There are ways of discerning legitimate sources...You go to academic databases...Academic authors attend to be available if you have any questions about the research they published...
So, who is being LAZY now...? haha...The discourse on any given subject is now available to anybody who wants to participate...With the internet, you can go to a medical forum and discuss issues with doctors, you can go on writing forum and discuss issues with English professors, and you get opinions from people from different cultural backgrounds...Would we even be having this discussion before the electronic age...? I am in Canada, and I don't know where you are, and yet we are able to debate and exchange opinions and ideas...This would NOT be possible in the age of hard copy books...
It was even HARDER with hard copy books to tell the agenda of the authors...For example, the Bible, the Koran and many other books that served to promote a certain agenda...
Like I said before, it's your responsibility as a reader to figure out which info is reliable...Again, who is being lazy now...?
I might not own a physical copy of a book but it isn't susceptible to being deleted from the cloud, being tampered with on the cloud, etc
But how do you know the info was not tampered with before publication and printing...I really don't understand why you are making this point...The Bible was a physical copy for YEARS, and look at all the tampering it has been through...?
If it's an academic book, you can always verify the information by getting in touch with the author, and comparing the info you have with new info being published...If it's a fictional book, then how does it matter...? Harry Potter is Black in your physical copy, but Yellow in the e-book version, so what...?
You really should learn to write concise and coherent, since most of what you typed was extraneous.
I think I am being concise and very direct...There maybe spelling and grammatical error here and there, but I don't think the message is lost...If you need clarification, you need to state it...
But you like to dodge, and argue in circles..hahaha
So the only thing you have listed as an advantage so far is the space and money you save from e-books? Not very convincing.
1) Speed 2) Convenience (storage, portability, universality, accessibility) 3) Financially (you can always back your hard drive and printout the book when needed)...
If your physical copy burns down in fire, and ruined by water, juice/food spills and etc...You have to spend more money on a new copy...It makes NO sense...
All these are MAJOR advantages...
Yet, you have stated ZERO advantages of physical copies...Your copy cannot be tampered with...hahaha...How does that even matter when you did not produce your copy, and thus, it could have been tampered with at any point along the production line...
Also, if I buy an e-Book the very day it's published, and save it on a hard drive not connect to the internet, how will it be tampered with...?
Basically, your ONLY argument for physical books are paranoid delusions of mysterious tampering by an illusive shadowy government of rich people...
In that case, why are you even on the internet...? You should be in a cave somewhere with no radio signals eating from the land...
You DON'T have a legitimate argument for physical books...I am sure physical books have some advantages in extremely repressive societies, but our context is Western society, so I don't see a legitimate against e-Books...
