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March 30, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. Books are being “blown to bits.” By whom and why?

A. That's bits as in bits and bytes, as archived books are being digitized by the millions, in at least seven different languages — Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish — and going all the way back to the year 1520, says Brian Hayes in American Scientist magazine. Critics worry about this, as do sentimentalists who say “it's just not the same curling up by fireside with a good Kindle.”


 
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