End of the Book ?

As in every field of our everyday life, the technology has made its entrance into the world of books. Indeed, we notice now the appearance of a new form of books, the electronic ones. It is a digital version encompassed in an electronic device that allows you to carry more than 160 books at the same time.
The future of paper books is seriously endangered by those novelties since people look now for a more practical way of life and this device is highly simplifiying the process of reading. However, the real lovers of books that see more in a book an object carrying an emotional meaning won't love this new form of it that is impersonal. Paper books are the ones that move from a hand to another, conveying the smell and the impression of its previous readers and this is something impossible to obtain with an electronic book. At my point, everything that is not anymore in its original form looses its charms. Keeping a traditional side in our lives does not mean being outdated, but on the contrary putting a healthy barrier to the invasion of technology.

Old Newspapers Get Online Launch

Google is innovating once again in the technological world by transforming old written newspapers to digital ones and launching them on the Web. It is a long-drawn-out job since it required considerable studies and tests to make it works. This is to bring an ameliorated appearance to traditional newspapers and to make them available to a wide range of readers through time and space.

This ambitious project that Google is forming of digitalizing all the newspapers since 1764 can be considered as a history work insofar as newspapers reflect on the context of the specific periods in which they were written. Therefore, reading them will be equivalent of studying the interests, the lifestyles and the preoccupations of people at that time more than reading the news. Let’s say that there are quite no more frontiers between the present and the past and this is due to the advances in technology and Google and its new accomplishment is one of the many examples that illustrate this statement.