Long Live Books - But Are Books Slowly Dying a Painful Death

The end of book? This is misleading and is definitely an open ended question. It is a question of the paper versus the hard drive. Of course the paper book will survive, but it may be in a library. With book sales on the decrease, and many booksellers (Borders) going out of business. We could also ask the question did video killed the radio star. Some people believe it did. While others don't. There were also people that believed that television would not entirely eradicate book reading and that didn't happen. As people learned to believe that television can interpret books. Books can interpret television. The book still survived.

With the digital era, everything is accessible. We are living in a mass media era. People are writing there own novels (blogs) and setting up websites everyday. Everyone has something to say, or an opinion to voice. But is there any original thought out there. Most of the sites that I come across are the same old same old.

Mass media simply rework, reword, or re-link to other peoples thoughts, instead of expressing their own. How many TV ads are original. Its mostly all reworked rubbish. What do these marketing people take us for? Dd they think that we are just robots and won't notice. Most of the time, I just turned off half the time. Because its the same thing that I have seen before. Everything on the web is the same it is linked to this that and just plain old rubbish. Who has an original thought these days? Its becoming a very rare quality to see or read.

Are these people doing it for money or enjoyable? Some do it for enjoyable. But those people are now hard to find. So I am but to the original question. Are novels as we now it are now becoming out of date. They do take up too much space, not like a hard drive. But I still love the touch or essence of a novel. It is tangible. We can all search the internet for answers. No longer is there the dictionary. Now we have Wikipedia. Everything is taking on a different form, and it moving fast. I sometimes struggle to keep up.

Who knows if you keep some of your books, you could show them to your grandkids, and show them what a book was or used to be.