<div class="gmail_quote">On 17 September 2011 18:15, David Lubkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com">lubkin@unreasonable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have many more than 5000 books but I won't be satisfied until I have<br>
a working professional's library for each subject I'm interested in, and<br>
there are few subjects I'm not.<br></blockquote><div>... <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Likewise, but I'm really less addicted to books than I am an information<br>
junkie. I'm not sure how safe it'll be for me once I have the prospect of<br>
drinking from the full fire hose with computer-brain linkage.</blockquote><div><br>The truth is that I could quite easily "store" books (in the basement, etc.), but as long as they are out of comfortable reach - and your are not employing a full-time librarian, keeping and updating a catalogue thereof, etc., as we do in my law firm - at a point you could as well not own them at all...<br>
<br>In this respect, electronic versions already have an edge for occasional consultation and prompt access.<br><br>As to cover-to-cover reading, e-ink solutions are barely acceptable, PCs, tablets and smartphones remain very poor replacements for the paper thing.<br>
<br>-- <br></div></div>Stefano Vaj<br>