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Books don't need batteries, can last for hundreds of years, don't require an operating system, are immediately accessible, you can trade them, loan them or sell them as they are a tangible asset.
Those who snapped up the last leather bound, gilt edge versions of Encyclopaedia Britannica for a song (as after all you could get it on CD-ROM)
are certainly laughing now....No longer in print they command eye-watering prices.
The latest tech has the longevity of the spoken word which in the case of Prime Ministers and EV's for example, is also very unreliable.
The world needs more books IMHO.
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