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apples and oranges
The paper book is not inefficient when used with educational methods based on it. However, the paper book is a problematic resource when using educational methods of screen based learning and communication. The screen adapted methods do not induce linear reading or reading from start to finish.
The subsequent question is if the exercise of authorship to present a complex conceptual work in orderly array will remain in favor. And then there is a final question if the absence of formally presented conceptual works, in the format of paper books, will impair cultural elaboration and transmission.
Discussion and metrics are in the paper book,
Always On, Language in an Online and Mobile World, by Naoimi S. Baron. I did not read it through or from start to finish but the book does argue that social changes, not shifts in technologies of communication, are at work and that the two are not tightly interlocked.
print on reflection
Perhaps the contest between screen based books and paper based books can look at the transitions associated with digital photography. With digital photography there was little shift in the skills of picture making. But the underlying recording technology transitioned fully from analog to digital and as a result the delivery and presentation options were greatly increased.
All books are now digitally recorded. The increased delivery and presentation options include both paper and screen, just as with photography. Perhaps the unanswered question for the future of the book or photography is what will be the nature of the interaction of the extended delivery and presentation options? How will exclusive attributes or deficiencies of screen and paper define each other?
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