The Final Chapter in the Life of the Book

GSO writes “Could this be the final chapter in the life of the book, from The Sunday Times (Library Link of the Day 22/01/07). The past and the present of the ongoing saga of book digitization. The world’s libraries are heading for the internet, says Bryan Appleyard. If this means we lose touch with real books and treat their content as ‘information’, civilisation is the loser”