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Originally Posted by bhartman36
I can see this happening, possibly, but I don't think it would be a good turn of events. Books are books, and movies are movies. (Sorry for stating the obvious.  ) I find the idea of putting sound and animation (let alone video) in books a little disturbing, as it turns the act of reading into something closer to the act of watching TV or a movie. I've got nothing against TV or movies, but they're completely different experiences, and I think the act of reading engages different parts of your intellect that don't get touched by more passive media. |
First, if one adds multimedia or interactivity to books, then they're not books anymore. They're something else, that we don't yet have a word for (although some "brands" are starting to show up here and there). It therefore won't threaten books, just like video games don't threaten books, or movies don't threaten books. Pears and apples.
Then we have several different things happening there:
* Something that I thought was exclusively French: the idea that books are the pinnacle of Culture (with a capital c);
* The idea that books are the most (if not only) intelligent leisure, all other forms of entertainment or culture are dumber (and therefore less desirable, because intelligence and austere-ness are benchmarks of value);
* That there exists an objectively definable "pure" way of creating or interacting with a book, that would garantee the above qualities, and that any deviation from it would be by definition negative.
Those ideas also seem strange to me.