{"id":631,"date":"2009-09-06T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/09\/why-paper-is-eternal.html"},"modified":"2014-04-27T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:44:54","slug":"why-paper-is-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/09\/why-paper-is-eternal.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Paper Is Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are modes of learning and thinking that at the moment are only available from actual books. There is a kind of deep-dive, meditative reading that\u2019s almost impossible to do on a screen. Without books, students are more likely to do the grazing or quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author\u2019s ideas.&#8221; Read: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/09\/04\/a_library_without_the_books\/?page=full\">Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/04\/194253\/New-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital?from=rss\">via<\/a>). See (and print&#8230;) also this 75-page essay: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/apo.org.au\/research\/hamlets-blackberry-why-paper-eternal\">Hamlet&#8217;s Blackberry: why paper is eternal<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are modes of learning and thinking that at the moment are only available from actual books. There is a kind of deep-dive, meditative reading that\u2019s almost impossible to do on a screen. Without books, students are more likely to do the grazing or quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,60,260,99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}