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About BOOKS
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
What's so special about Digital/Virtual books? What's wrong with the system we have always had? The answer is NOTHING! We love all books regardless of TANGIBILITY! No-one is saying physical books are an issue! All books live side by side, and all have been crafted by worthy minds. Language and the Written Word is for ALL PEOPLE! A jacket does not anoint type to any higher valuation then the ingredients themselves.
⍗ ⍗ ⍗ DON'T BE LIKE THESE DUMBS* ⍗ ⍗ ⍗
Dumb Takes
“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something very like a Web site. Its words become wrapped in all the distractions of the networked computer. Its links and other digital enhancements propel the reader hither and yon. It loses what the late John Updike called its “edges” and dissolves into the vast, rolling waters of the Net. The linearity of the printed book is shattered, along with the calm attentiveness it encourages in the reader.”
― Nicholas Carr
Baseless Fearmongering
“Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.”
― Anne Fadiman
Its the Same Words!
“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
― Penelope Lively
Ray Baby
Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”
― Ray Bradbury
“He did also say the quote below which almost makes up for this shenanigans.” ― modus
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
Maurice....
“F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.”
― Maurice Sendak
So it seems like we first have to tackle this whole smell issue, and then move onto self amusement
“Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.”
― Joe Queenan
Add lickability to the Dev List
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.”
― Felicia Johnson
“Scrumptious” ― modus
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“The truth is no online database will replace your newspaper,” he claimed. “Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.” Stoll captured the prevailing skepticism of a digital world full of “interacting libraries, virtual communities, and electronic commerce” with one word: “baloney.”
― Kevin Kelly
*Do Not Attempt Bisection
Okay, Actually Funny. We will let it slide Mr. King just this once, oh and your discount code is in the email from September and will stay active until 2023.
“If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you’re pretty well done.”
― Stephen King
"Modus... Modus, Modus Modus-Modus, Modus... Modus, Modus Modus-Digi-tal Publ-ish-ing"
Sung to the tune of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Op.20, TH.12 / Act 4 - No.29 Scène Finale (Andante)