I am an information omnivore, I will use information whether it comes from print or online sources. Being an information omnivore makes me have a hard time with two different sorts of people. Most of the time it’s been the people who think that information from online sources is inherently of a poor quality, unstable, unreliable and generally worthless. But increasingly I have to deal with the other extreme, the people who think that information from print sources is always out of date, and is too expensive or inconvenient to deal with. I am definitely not a bibliophile, but there is no way that you can try to keep on top of a specialized field and ignore books and other print only sources.
Repeat after me: Right now, it is not all available online for free. And if information created from the past is needed, it will never be all available online for free. I wish it were, but it isn't.
Repeat after me: Right now, it is not all available online for free. And if information created from the past is needed, it will never be all available online for free. I wish it were, but it isn't.