^Bruce; sadly, in many cases, old books (I’m thinking from the fifties, on acid paper, turning brown - not centuries old, on vellum, still usable) do wind up in landfills.
Now we have Google Books, and the Gutenberg Project, making works (especially out-of-copyright) available on-line.
^Free; an LCD, with LED backlight, won’t have the X-ray problems that big CRTs still do, but there are still eyestrain problems with our displays.
I still have a pair of Prio computer glasses, based on the idea that our eye tries to focus on a fuzzy-edged set of pixels instead of a crisp printed word on a page, then relaxes to focus somewhere at the neck of a CRT; over and over. Higher resolution displays may improve that situation, but (with new ownership), they’re still in business.
^Bruce; sadly, in many cases, old books (I’m thinking from the fifties, on acid paper, turning brown - not centuries old, on vellum, still usable) do wind up in landfills.
Now we have Google Books, and the Gutenberg Project, making works (especially out-of-copyright) available on-line.
^Free; an LCD, with LED backlight, won’t have the X-ray problems that big CRTs still do, but there are still eyestrain problems with our displays.
I still have a pair of Prio computer glasses, based on the idea that our eye tries to focus on a fuzzy-edged set of pixels instead of a crisp printed word on a page, then relaxes to focus somewhere at the neck of a CRT; over and over. Higher resolution displays may improve that situation, but (with new ownership), they’re still in business.