Print Books vs. Digital Books
While the first print books came from Johann Gutenberg in 1448, the first automated readers would not come until 1949, when Angela Ruiz Robles attempted the first one. Her work would go unpatented and largely unnoticed until the internet was invented and ebooks became more than just a concept. In 1971, Michael Hart got unprecedented access to early computers and decided that it would be beneficial to digitize some important writing such as the Declaration of Independence, the Bible, and the Constitution and make them available for people to download. It would take ebooks quite a while to catch on, not really hitting their stride until 1999, but once they found a niche in the market, they have settled in to stay. While ebooks were once predicted to entirely take over the book market, as this history of ebooks points out, people rarely buy ebooks as gifts the way they do physical books. For me personally, I prefer physical books because my eyes get tired from looking at scr