In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.

[Click the link to read a list of pros of printed books and cons of e-books].

As much as people have scorned me for personally preferring printed books over e-books… I find it much easier to read a book on paper, ‘cause I can’t concentrate as well when reading things on a screen. But it’s most probably all in my head, and I could prevent it if I tried.

Moving on! The above is quite interesting ‘cause I never thought about the topic that much.

And although I personally prefer printed books, I understand the move to e-books and wouldn’t restrict it. Only thing I don’t like is DRM (Digital Restrictions/Rights Management). For some reason, I previously presumed they didn’t do this with ebooks. =\

(Source: azspot)