Do we still value Books??

i would suspect that it maybe according to the individual.a lawyer for instance would value their law books because it helps them refer back to cases and it's hard evidence for him as it's coming from a primary source. he or she will be able to refer back to them for guidance and what not. but for everyone else, they would careless about what it is because it lacks the importance for us.now you're probably thinking, comic books [or if you prefer the word graphic novel] or stories and similar lack actual need for them. you are dead wrong. artists may refer back to these things as reference or whatever reason that they would have the need for them. a historian or librarian uses them for archiving.

Squigs_GhostI guess it must be me being old, but has anyone read "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury? First published in 1953 it tells the story of a land where books are banned and burnt (451F being the combustion temperature of paper).It raises some very interesting concepts as to what you are and are not allowed to know. All information is controlled digitally by the government and free thought is suppressed. Does any of this sound familiar 55 years after it was written?The premise of the story runs that people rebel in their own way and become books themselves, outcasts, but carrying on the tradition of story telling.Books will always have a place in our house as I teach Little Man, Books are Knowledge. You can't beat having a wall filled with decorated colourful spines which you can pick up and put down at your leisure.Granted, these can be placed on disc, DS, MP3 and occupy a lot less space, be accessible at the touch of a button, but what happens when you drop it into the toilet? Yes, you can back it up, but how many people bother? Subsequently that Sunday afternoon you spent downloading £5000 worth of books is lost and nobody thinks twice about it.Books should be respected and appreciated, lets face it, you wouldn't wipe your hard drive of all the games you've downloaded would you? If you had the similar amount of downloads sat on your shelf bought from a shop, the first thing you would do is increase your contents insurance!Respect books, and they will return the favour time and time again, generation after generation.Squigs.

I knew someone would bring up the argument of Fahrenheit 451, but that has nothing to do on the matter. That book was about censorship, not books. Yes, books were the main method of censorship, but as the book said, the major point was "if you want to keep a man from building a house, take away his wood and nails. If you want to keep a man politically happy, don't give him two sides to debate, give him one. Better yet, give him none."But anyway, I don't think we need to value books that much. We need to value them just as much as we value the exact same thing that's on our computer screen, except we don't have to go out and find/buy a new version of the digital information every year.

Im Surpised, In the Past Few month's i actually started, Reading books.. For Fun ><
.... My Mother's Proud... ><Anyways, The only reason kids, or teen's dont like books, is becouse there lazy as hell
wich is sad... They dont know what they miss
Its probably also becouse, the fact that people who read, more than the Average Kid, Is Probably going to get bullied
... I know im a Kid/teen myself
But seriusly... Kids theese days, are (Swearing Swearing Swearing) Idiots...
(Whoa, i sound like im old ><)

I've also found that a lot of the books produced these days don't compare to the older books. I grew up reading the likes of the coral island, hardy boys, nancy drew, swallows and amazons, biggles etc. Newer books just don't grip me the way those used to.

While I immerse myself in technology, The one thing I hate is having to read anything on a computer screen. After about just two hours your eyes begin to hurt. Mine are developing a dull ache now. As far as I'm concerned, nothing can compare to settling down to a good page turner. The smell of a new book, it's absolutley wonderful. Ahh, I can smell it now. Books will always hold a place on our mantel's I don't care how popular books on tape become, their all far to boring to hear anyway. Yes, I'd rather read a book I wrote between the hardcover cover, the spine creaking as I opened it. Books have always been a big part of my life, and they always will be. Printed word all the way!

rasmusen1 · #63Im Surpised, In the Past Few month's i actually started, Reading books.. For Fun ><
.... My Mother's Proud... ><Anyways, The only reason kids, or teen's dont like books, is becouse there lazy as hell
wich is sad... They dont know what they miss
Its probably also becouse, the fact that people who read, more than the Average Kid, Is Probably going to get bullied
... I know im a Kid/teen myself
But seriusly... Kids theese days, are (Swearing Swearing Swearing) Idiots...
(Whoa, i sound like im old ><)

I totally agree. I'm sixteen and everyone around me is a lazy druggie. I get so sick of all the ignorance and drug use of this generation. Let's jump back a few, generations, let's have all the technology we have today, that'd be a perfect world, well no world is perfect, but it'd be better

I for one value the hell out of books. You may think it's nerdy, but I get all ecstatic when I buy a book from amazon or at Barnes and Noble whether it's fictional or instructional. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Amazon Kindle yet in this thread. It's a revolutionary piece of technology that can download hundreds of thousands of books through a wireless connection and you can even download the newspaper on it.Interesting fact, Books that were written before the press was invented used to cost a lot more and so much that people couldn't afford them. One person, an instructor, would have access to these books and read them aloud to a group of people, the students. That's where the traditional lecturing methods came about. But now that books can be mass produced, some people find it more effective to teach themselves through reading and if you think about it, lecturing was an old school method that became obsolete the second we were able to mass produce multiple texts.

Loonylion · #64I've also found that a lot of the books produced these days don't compare to the older books. I grew up reading the likes of the coral island, hardy boys, nancy drew, swallows and amazons, biggles etc. Newer books just don't grip me the way those used to.

At least I'm not the only person that read Nancy Drew =/I still read a lot, mainly fantasy books, and a lot of Tom Clancy. The new Ebook readers out now do look pretty neat(see the Kindle or its brethren). I will stick with my books though, I mean... if it isn't broke, why fix it?

I like the versatility, good book? you could laminate it! (with an awful lot of trouble :P)
Freezing cold in a post apocalyptic library? burn em
You can't wrote notes on e-books the same way scribbling on a book canok more seriously I prefer reading a book on paper, You cant lay out in a grass field with a computer by your side.
Portable screened devices (ussually DSs) rely on batteries and... well there's just something about em that doesn't cut it.
Ah, I remember before anyone knew about the park, a few blocks down, a lovely grass field with a small cliff and a shady tree, spent so much time there, reading, talking 1 on 1 with some of my besties, it was perfect... untill they built a road nearby :'(

i still read i can finish a series in like a couple of days and not get bored of it it allows me to live as them we sill need books ! if books die out then books can be lost but they can be stored and protected but dadta can be lost recked or deleted

I believe we're losing our appreciation for books. I do however, finish a Steven King book every few weeks. I cant stand to read a book on any form of digital media. Also if some kind of EMP or solar flare wired all digital data off the earth all we would have left are the old books.

books and paper probably will dissapear in 10-25 years from now, considering the world's trees is decreasing very fast for producting paper, ect. people will use e-book with touch screen function with more accurate pixel and unique stylus to write onto the e-book screen. the e-book have wireless internet acces,camera and video phone system, and people probably doesn't need book anymore because paper production will banned.

Fearon · #65While I immerse myself in technology, The one thing I hate is having to read anything on a computer screen. After about just two hours your eyes begin to hurt. Mine are developing a dull ache now. As far as I'm concerned, nothing can compare to settling down to a good page turner. The smell of a new book, it's absolutley wonderful. Ahh, I can smell it now. Books will always hold a place on our mantel's I don't care how popular books on tape become, their all far to boring to hear anyway. Yes, I'd rather read a book I wrote between the hardcover cover, the spine creaking as I opened it. Books have always been a big part of my life, and they always will be. Printed word all the way!

This is so true for me and my one of my friend who loves books. I'm a traditional reader and I prefer printed books to the electronic ones. Believe me books will still be here in a very long time. Human's civilization started with books and it will always be like that.

Some of my favourite books are:
Keys to the kingdom series- Garth Nix
Old kingdom series- Garth Nix
Power of five- Anthony Horowitz
and lots of other ones.
I still value books, but Lots of kids at my school seem to think myspace and bebo is the only thing worth reading.
Personally I would love to read "the theory of evolution"by charles darwin or
The da vinci code, Which mean alot to me, because I am catholic.

Well, about now I think e-books is the word I'd prefer, its real tiring if you read the book in person, why not use 'read till the end of the document' function on adobe reader. ;D Well, the most recent e-book I read was Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows (which I finished in about a 6 weeks or so..).

manga: go right ahead use an e-book, but for actual novels go paperback

I like to read books.I don't always have a laptop with me but I surely have at least 2 or more books in my bag.
I hope that the written word stays for a long time. A.pdf file is smaller an compacter than a book but I don't like to watch at my screen for long periods of time.

in my opinion, we devalue books alot, i myself is guilty to this crime. when ever i have home work or any research to do i and i bet many other go on the net and google it.. when we arent finding any helpfull thing ( we usually find what we want) then we make desperate consultations to our books. and it is these same books that the internet are based on. i guess there is nothing wrong with us deserting our books ( i dont see the big deal with that ) because we should have a pprogressive and modernizing mind

I dont really read that much anymore. I hear them on my ipod instead. I belive they are loosing value

ipod reads... wow, i don't like those, its like only hearing the movie. i think we should start reading novels again... except that twilight series... vampires were feared, but now there just sparkling fruitcakes who befriend humans in a cutesy pathetic way ...... what a failure. dracula was a good character... he just needed a little more work.

Actually, I've been looking for the fabled PDF viewer for the iPhone/iPod Touch, but to no avail.