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Ranging from the pragmatic elements of printed literature to the emotional, I don't think that books will ever go entirely out of fashion. While I am in front of a screen for six plus hours a day, I still prefer to read the same text in print because it doesn't kill my eyes as badly. The sentimental reasoning for print literature lies in the fact that a book makes the intangible a solid, the lines that spring from the writer's mind are now sitting in the reader's hands, instead of floating in an ethereal stream of information. In a way, e-literature is like the next generation of the oral tradition, with more room to spread.

That was beautifully said.