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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
This medium is a useful tool, but it has released me from nothing. Sure, it is handy and has many uses. I look up information every day about Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque composers, and am glad I can, yet I just bought a new book on British batlleships from 1905-1920, and it is full of information not available online at all.
Things on the web can only be trusted as far as the people who put them there can be trusted. I'll keep my books, thank you, and I'll keep buying them.
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Certainly each form of media has flaws in and of it's own. I would believe books would contain more factual information than say Wikipedia. I like my books as well. I have downloaded a few to read but it just seems to be missing something.
Tekada:
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Exactly. The hoops that one has to jump through with publishers and distributers usually results in the printed medium being more reliable than the digital one. Any fool can put up a website. It is much harder to get a book published.
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Copyright infringement. Plagiarism, etc. These keep one honest.