[78-L] Bye Bye, Borders

[Bill McClung]

And, yet, I was in a Half-Price Books in Oklahoma City this week and struck
up a conversation with a twenty-something clerk at the register.  He had
just started collecting LPs and I asked him why.  He said he liked holding
the records

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Thatcher Graham
<thatcher at mediaguide.com>wrote:

> Supposing I'm not hit by a truck and estimating based on the general
> family longevity... I've got at least another 50 years or so. I dont'
> feel particularly threatened by the radical Islamic... I'm more likely
> to be struck my lightning... or crushed under a toppled stack of 78s.
>
> ... the current ebook readers can hold thousands of books and cost just
> a couple hundred dollars. My entire library would fit on a Kindle. My
> interns don't even own CDs. The idea is foreign and perhaps
> uncomfortable to me but physical media could become a novelty within the
> next generation.
>
> --
> Thatcher Graham
> Mediaguide
>
>
>
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>
> On 2/17/2011 11:33 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> > From: "Thatcher Graham"<thatcher at mediaguide.com>
> >> I expect that in my lifetime printed books will go the way 78s did in my
> >> fathers. Physical media isn't dead yet, but give it a couple decades.
> >>
> > Depends...how old are you and how many more years can we expect you to
> live?
> > Also, consider the possibility that our dependence on computers (into
> which we
> > have to physically "type" data) will probably evolve into we know not
> what in
> > another few years; OTOH, radical Islamists may well destroy our physical
> world?!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> >
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