Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Mark Kohut]

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I notice that Franzen doesn't object to having his own books sold in e format.
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Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

I liked Freedom. Don't like to read long passages of text on a screen, but think TV is a lot more dangerous than Pads and Kindles.  
On Jan 30, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> barbie gaze wrote:
>> Jonathan Franzen is just getting old. Everything new is damaging one thing
>> or another. Change is damaging.
> 
> Ms Gaze Nietzscheanly espouses catastrophism rather than incrementalism
> 
> temporal bandwidth enters into this somewhere:
> I'm not saying prophetically know the future - that'd be nice work if
> you could get it - but allow for a future in your planning...seeing
> "damage" as change or "change" as damage somehow begs the question for
> me (that's one of those phrases that has never really made sense to me
> till lately, and maybe not so much even now) - "what is 'damage'"
> which I guess is a subspecies of that "define your terms"
> argument-refiner
> 
> suppose nothing is really as you think it is (which is probably true,
> right?) and yet you have to conceptualize things somehow so if you're
> on the ball you know that things will change because you're living in
> a temporary construct...but of course that begs the question "if it
> isn't real why does it feel so real"...I  was gonna say adjust to what
> you see coming and avoid damage (or even darnage)
> 
> anyway - Franzen ain't all that bad in my book, readers expect a lot
> and no one writer can completely satisfy everything needed (thank
> goodness) although Pynchon comes close ( though I could wish for a
> decalogy of Doc 'tecs if he wanted to cater to me...)
> 
> so if Mr F wants to urinate and ululate I can sympathize to a degree:
> I like printed books and sure would miss them if they went away
> completely.. but they won't...right Mark?