Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[eburns at gmail.com]

Worry not, in the digital age it's easily fixed. A thousand years ago you'd have been whipping your slaves for their typos.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:21:26 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
To: Pynchon-L<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Reply-To: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

I should be fired from my dream job already: "too specialized" and "such phrases as 'damaging society' make."


-----Original Message-----
>From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Jan 30, 2012 2:57 PM
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
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>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.
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