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The problems with e-books are that they are not radical enough: they dispense with the best aspect of books (paper as a display medium) while simultaneously aiming to disable the best aspects of electronic data (sharability, copyability, searchability, editability.)
-- Clay Shirky. "The Siren Song of Luddism" Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog (June 19, 2007)
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