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The impending return of the book

Why an anti-digital wave like the anti-carbon one is around the corner

Illustration: Ajay Mohanty
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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Ajit Balakrishnan
I can’t help but introspect when I find myself buying the books I feast on more and more in printed  format rather than doing what I have been doing for the past two decades, buying them in electronic form, for example on the Kindle. Add one further reason to introspect — these books I buy have titles like Doing Data Science, Neural Networks with R, and come filled with algebraic equations and computer code. 

Initially, I explained this behaviour by telling myself that I was just being practical: Dense computer codes do not read well on Kindle, a fact that is
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