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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
A good summary of "who is Andy Rooney?" but I have to take issue with the last sentence. Andy Rooney is an old fart, and he makes his living by expounding on his thoughts as an old fart.
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SNIP The sentence in question was "So I don't really think his opinion is worth the pixels it take to post it"
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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
You don't have to like their opinions, but I think we owe it to our elders to listen to and respect them. Andy Rooney is funny because he plays up his curmudgeon role for effect, but he does represent plenty of older people who do fear change - and sometimes for very good reason.
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First I want to apologize to anyone offended by my "Old Fart" comment and offer up a little better perspective about this issue, now that I have taken the time to re-watch the video in question and to re-watch it again to create a transcript of the video, I can not guarantee every word is correct, but the message is the same as he said it.
"If you had to make a list of all the good things in the world, books would be right up there near the top. Someone did a great thing when they invented books, one way or another books have been around for a long time now to. I don't know who invented the printed word, but you'd have to put it ahead of things like the airplane or jelly doughnuts. I have a friend Peter Asnouse <SP> who publishes books and Peter told me that what they call e-books, electronic books are now selling better than paper back books, ha ha I doubt it, but thats what Peter says, and he's in the business.
He makes it sound as if every book will be published electronically soon and be read using some sort of an electronic device, I'm not interested in having my books on an electronic device, I want them in books, I want my words in books, I like having these books behind me. So I asked another friend to show me his e-reader, he told me that you can carry over 3500 books in just this one little package. My books have always been important to me, not just the I've written, but any book I own, I can't imagine not being able to pick up a book and thumb through it. One of the fist books I wrote, a long time ago, was called "The Fortunes of War", pretty expensive then, seven dollars and fifty cents. Now you can get it free as an e-book. Not much in that for me.
My friend said that e-readers will eventually make books extinct, I hope that doesn't include authors."
My understanding of the topic wasn't sufficient to have had an opinion, my opinion was entirely based on my personal opinion of Andy Rooney, which as I so eloquently put "I don't really think his opinion is worth the pixels it takes to post it". The number of times preconceived notions have caused investigations to flounder and need rerouting to solve a crime.
I don't think Mr. Rooney was trying to say that e-readers or e-books are bad, he stated that "HE" didn't have any interest in having "HIS" books on an electronic device, I suspect him being an author, he was referring to the books he has written, because his first boot "The Fortunes of War" is now a FREE e-book and he isn't receiving any royalties for it. I don't know how serious this spot was, or if he really feels that way or if it was just a way to draw attention to his written works, all conjecture, but I think we can safely say that most of us that posted, didn't really take the time to watch the video well enough to comment on it, myself included.