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I have three paperbacks in the pack I commute with to make certain that I never run out of something to read on the bus. I'm usually reading two books, on the bus and on at home. Hell, I'm a writer. I read all day long.
I, too, doubt that books will disappear. But the number of people able to make use of them except as kindling is decreasing in the US.
Literacy is decreasing rapidly as verbal language diverges from the written. It's becoming a cultural separator, a class dividing line. The literate will become an over-class of people able to keep records and read instructions. While those who are not able to read will become a permanent underclass, an immense waste of humanity possibility.
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+++++++++++Boom!
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