Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[kelber at mindspring.com]

This Franzen has different concerns:

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/01/30/occupy-atlantas-tim-franzen-says-hes-being-targeted-by-police

Laura


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>From: eburns at gmail.com
>Sent: Jan 30, 2012 3:53 PM
>To: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>, Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
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>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>
>Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>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
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>I should be fired from my dream job already: "too specialized" and "such phrases as 'damaging society' make."
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>-----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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