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Paper was a material used in the production of written documents. Although it bore a resemblance to durasheet, paper was not designed with the utility of reusability in mind. As technological progress was made, paper was superseded by data storage devices such as datapads and was rarely used. During the First Corellian Insurrection, Anakin Solo used a pen and paper to record the coordinates of each star that was targeted for destruction by the Sacorrian Triad, as well as the time of each, by memory.

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The rulebook for the first edition of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game stressed that "there is no paper in the Star Wars universe" and that the inhabitants of the galaxy exclusively used electronic means of data storage. In addition to the use of paper in publications, such as Assault at Selonia, this attitude towards the use of paper in the Star Wars universe seemed to relax by the time that the rulebook for the game's second edition was published. It stated that paper was "rarely, if ever used" by the galaxy's inhabitants.

Lord Revan wrote:IIRC paper is used today as it's still more relible and convient then going fully electronic.

Elheru Aran wrote:

Lord Revan wrote:IIRC paper is used today as it's still more relible and convient then going fully electronic.

Of course, but it does cost more. When digital devices become far more common (as in, you more or less literally can not live in a First World nation without one), then I would expect to see a proportionate reduction in paper used daily-- shopping receipts will be sent to your phone, the majority of books sold will be electronic, newspapers will be delivered in electronic format, etc. Certainly the dead-tree format will still be available to those willing to buy them, but it's like we're already seeing some movies going to streaming *before* DVD releases.