BackUpBooks are now for Sale
I also clearly prefer to read pages full of Internet links on the Internet rather than on paper, because on paper the Internet links makes little sense.
Someone tipped me recently that my name appeared on the front page of a new book sold on amazon.com. I have to admit I was curious what was written about me (as no one had contacted me concerning such a book project). So yes I ordered the book. The book was simply a collection of pages from Wikipedia printed on paper and bound into a book.
What was even more disappointing was that also the Internet links was just printed out on paper. Links that often only make sense on the Internet. Have you also noticed: if you click on words in a paper book strangely nothing happens.
Not long after I ordered another book from amazon on a topic that interested me (not myself this time :-), that I though was a ordinary paper book. Again to my big disappointment the book was just a collection of pages printed from Wikipedia, without any editing to make it more paper friendly. Again there were lots of links that made no sense on paper.
I also wonder if there exists a special names for such books?
The dream of a paper free office seems to be even further away than before. Think if every page from the internet now will be printed on paper and sold as paper books.
I do not see much purpose of such books as long as they not are edited a bit to fit paper. Well such books of internet links that strangely do not work on paper could possibly be a good back up for a massive solar storm taking down the electricity grid. We can then show the children of the word such books and tell them that in the good old times we could simply click on the words and new pages would pop up from no where. So yes we should call them BackUpBooks!
