Pity the Kindle Generation

[Matthew Cissell]

The changes in reading practices that are occuring now may cause some to seek refuge in nostalgia, but I myself feel no "fusty ire". But I do have some apprehensive concern. Take a good dose of paranoia mix it with some Foucault and add in a PH Dick plot, then you'll get an idea of my concern.
    Liberty? Think of it this way, the obtainment and reading of a text can now be documetned in a way that would be impossible w/ 'old book' reading. Farhenheit 451 (as it is written) is unthinkable in the post-book future. But then, what is possible? If they don't burn them, then what will it be?
 
ciao
mc otis (a not very old fart)


From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Pity the Kindle Generation

actually, I think the "Kindle Generation" will define "scanning my
bookshelves" as something entirely different to what the Torygraph
nostalgist has it.

I can't comprehend this fusty ire over e-books, and I am an old fart.
I love books, have tons, buy many more than I will ever read (is that
what he means when he says "for show"? I always think of buying books
as a hopeful act, a hedge against some future in which i have all the
time in the world and finally catch up), but I feel LIBERATED by
e-books.

damn, sometimes I feel like a monk whose wrists & eyes are aching from
midnight illumination being shown Gutenberg's printing press.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yrhelCxd9xQ/TjAXtN0YPBI/AAAAAAAAAIo/0HS3t2DkTRk/s912/buecher1.jpg
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> 2011/10/10 Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>:
>> P-listers books are rarely on shelves.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:48 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8814562/I-pity-the-Kindle-generation-they-will-never-know-the-sweet-nostalgia-of-scanning-their-bookshelves.html
>>>
>>> According to a new survey, two thirds of the books we have on our
>>> shelves are purely for show.
>>>
>>
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