This is now my new favorite animated short. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore has been nominated for an Oscar for best animated short film. It’s got my vote. Must watch!

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

There is an excellent article over on theVerge.com comparing the technology of eBooks against print. I highly recommend you check it out.  The article author Dieter Bohn makes some really good points.

One of my favorite points was on the longevity of books versus disintegrating computer disks and short-lived formats of the computer age (anyone open a .wpd document lately?).  The very ephemeral nature of ebooks is a serious shortcoming.  They are virtual.  By definition, they do not really exist.  Not in and of themselves.  They depend for their very being on the computers that they’re stored on, and the formats the computers use to do so.  If something happens to those computers, the books are lost.

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