A lot of our lives is now lived on screens, however books have quite stubbornly withstood this trend.

In this day and age we spend so much of our time looking at screens. Our work is extremely typically on screens, and they are turning into a much larger part of our working life, and the manner in which we relax tends to use screens, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, they ae becoming an even bigger part of our relaxation also. For a number of us, relaxation is associated with seeing movies or tv, all of which is done on a screen, or maybe checking out a book, which had actually been able to avoid the monopolisation of the screen until quite recently. Books are one of the oldest technologies that we still use today, with the book as we know it today being pretty much unchanged for about two thousand years now. Although eBooks may have been sold as the inevitable progression of the book, perhaps having at least one thing in your life that you do away from a screen is reason enough to avoid them. Individuals like the co-founder of the impact investor with a stake in World of Books would probably appreciate the appeal of reading a book without the requirement for a screen.
A lot of our lives now exists online. From our work to our entertainment and our shopping, the web now touches nearly every part of our lives. Although the web has actually certainly made a lot of things much easier and far more accessible for a great many people, it does take away from some things. Searching for beautiful books in a charming little bookshop, for instance, is definitely better than just hitting 'order' when buying them online. People like the co-CEO of the hedge fund that owns Waterstones would probably value the pleasures of offline shopping in bookshops.
We are typically informed that technology is the inevitable progression of things, a necessary enhancement that they would not make it through without, but is this actually true? It is a simple misconception to buy into, we have all skilled how mobile phones have actually made our lives much easier, providing us access to more things than we know how what to do with, but we likewise understand how it has damaged us too. And numerous things have really quite stubbornly withstood digitalisation, like books. Although it might have been expected that online books would make their print predecessors a thing of the past, that has actually not occurred at all, perhaps speaking to the limits of digitalisation and blowing a book-shaped hole in the misconception of technological development. People like the CEO of the asset manager with a stake in Amazon books might understand how books have resisted being technologically updated.