What if I told you I had an amazing new technology for information transferal? It has infinite battery life, is readable in almost any lighting conditions, reading it won't wear out your eyes, it is water resistant and wont' break when dropping it or hitting it with a hammer. As an added bonus, the vendor can't stealthily revoke access to this information or change it without telling you. You're allowed to lend it to a single person at a time with the downside that you temporarily no longer have access to the information. This miracle technology is 100% recyclable and its manufacture is environmentally friendly and ethical requiring no rare earth metals.
Each book also comes with a "free screen". We programmers have dual-monitors or triple-monitor setups.
Well, Dungeons and Dragons dungeon-masters have 2 or 3 copies of important rulebooks (Core Rulebook and/or Beastiaries) because we get tired of flipping through the pages all the time.
But its not so hard to have two books (Ex: Bestiary1 + Beastiary 2 copies) and have a page on Goblins + a 2nd book with the page on Devils to run a Goblin+Devil encounter.
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What if I told you I had an amazing new technology for information transferal? It has infinite battery life, is readable in almost any lighting conditions, reading it won't wear out your eyes, it is water resistant and wont' break when dropping it or hitting it with a hammer. As an added bonus, the vendor can't stealthily revoke access to this information or change it without telling you. You're allowed to lend it to a single person at a time with the downside that you temporarily no longer have access to the information. This miracle technology is 100% recyclable and its manufacture is environmentally friendly and ethical requiring no rare earth metals.
Yeah there's a reason we still love books.
Each book also comes with a "free screen". We programmers have dual-monitors or triple-monitor setups.
Well, Dungeons and Dragons dungeon-masters have 2 or 3 copies of important rulebooks (Core Rulebook and/or Beastiaries) because we get tired of flipping through the pages all the time.
But its not so hard to have two books (Ex: Bestiary1 + Beastiary 2 copies) and have a page on Goblins + a 2nd book with the page on Devils to run a Goblin+Devil encounter.
Is it? I wouldn't want to test that claim on any books I own or have borrowed.
I've dropped many in the bath, and one or two down the loo - they still worked.
Well, it'll survive a coffee spill at least, I can attest to that.
Issac Asimov wrote a similar essay in 1974 called The Ancient and the Ultimate.
99.9% yes. Acid in most papers still implies an O(100yr) lifetime, AFAIK.