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When looking at the history of communication it’s incredibly interesting to see how very very far we have developed. From rock art, with paintings drawn on the side of a cave or a rock or on the ground that tells a tale, to stories told by word of mouth, to alphabets, the written word, to books and onwards.
I personally am a great lover of books. I adore getting lost inside a world printed on paper, and to imagine where this all began is quite amazing. I imagine myself back in the days before the written word, when stories were communicated by voice or paintings. I wonder if I would have felt quite as engrossed in the world spun by words that were told aloud. I know I have difficulty as books develop with technology into e-books, that I don’t get quite the same experience without the pages between my fingers. It’s just not as intimate. However e-books seem to be the way the world is headed, with platforms for reading e-books becoming more prevalent. As Nancy K. Heather says in her article, ‘ebooks Everywhere,’ “E-readers continue to proliferate as more people turn to PDAs and other mobile devices for many reading applications ... the groundwork appears to be set to see ebooks take off even more rapidly in the coming year” (Heather, 2011).
I wonder if I will be able to change?
Heather, N. K. 2011, ‘ebooks Everywhere’, Searcher, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 22-31, viewed 23 August 2011,
<http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/875640395>
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