Architectural Technologist – Books paper or electronic

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPad and taking it on the cruise to Hawaii was just great, I read several large books and made notes ready for future articles, but, and here is the but, its not the same as a real paper book. I love books, we have so many, one of our upstair bedrooms is packed with htem, and we have shelves and cabinets filed with old paperbacks I can’t throw out, I might want to read them again. And as for warlking past an old book shop, forget it, thats not going to happen, if its open I’m in.

I love the smell. the feel of a book, and as one traveller recently said to me, paper has been in existance for so long, I can still read books or paper rolls several hundred years old, will I be able to say the same about electronic book, I have plans drawn on an old CAD system that are lost for ever, because the OS is long gone and the CAD package none existant.

So when I saw this video ( see below ) on my Google Circles list I thought ooooh wow, so cool and so right, books are for ever and lets remind people, I will use my iPad for technical books and for when I travel, its so much easier than lugging large libraries about, but for the rest of the time, paper it is.