Pity the Kindle Generation

[Albert Rolls]

There are other concerns. Can a text be fixed while it is on the Kindle, erasing its history. A book can be deleted from one's library by the company, something that happened some time ago with an unauthorized edition of 1984 or Animal Farm for the Kindle. What if a book is banned after the fact? Does that mean all e-reader copies can be taken back, making the ban all that more effective? The wrong version of Franzen's Freedom published in England might prove interesting for comparison to some scholar. I'm not sure copies could exist if they were all on e-readers, though Franzen might be happier. I'm not particularly bothered by e-books, but I don't think I'd be happy if hard copies were completely replaced, as some folks in the industry, at least if members of another group I listen in on gets its way. They seem to despise hard copy. By the way, what happened with the e-version of CL49 in England. It used to be available in England, but last time I looked, it wasn't. Did the people who bought it get to keep it? 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
>Sent: Oct 12, 2011 10:05 AM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Pity the Kindle Generation
>
>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>