# Are printed books dead? God I hope so!

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-04-are-printed-books-dead-god-i-hope-so

The piece argues that mature electronic-paper devices will eventually replace paper for most reading without radically changing literacy or information sharing.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 4 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: ebooks, reading-technology, digital-publishing.

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