Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Albert Rolls]

I'm not a fan of e-books (although I am happy that older books, to specialized for it to be cost effective to republish) can be gotten as PDFs off Google) and do worry that eventually (meaning before I die) the paper book will become more of a rarity than anything else and too expensive for my budget, but such phrases as "damaging society" makes me want to pick up my wife's Kindle and read all of Proust. I do, however, wish someone would decently pay enough people, me among them, to fix the scanning issues. It would seem like a nice gig in the company of text.