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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Then maybe we should dispense with the attitude. KFarmer, if you jumped in just to trash people's opinions that paper isn't the be-all-and-end-all of books, I'm not sure why you even bothered. (Read the website's name... it's not like you're going to convert anyone to paper.) We've had enough cross-ridiculing for today.
That said, we're discussing, even debating, but we shouldn't be beating up on each other. The issue here is the article and its statement, and whether it has more of a basis in fact, supposition, propaganda, or myth.
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Except the opinion was showing itself (between, say, you and bookbinder) to be that the be-all-and-end-all of reading were ordered glyphs, and nothing more, and that those who somehow felt something more for their common, smudgey cardboard and pulp were less for it, particularly in the imagination department.
Excuse me for feeling not a little insulted about that.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
With books, all I need are the words. (Punctuation helps.) I don't need them in fancy paper bindings to enjoy them, and I don't need them on a park bench surrounded by cooing doves to appreciate them. That's me. That's obviously not you, KFarmer. So, why don't we move on?
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I don't care for cooing doves, but I do recommend being surrounded by trees when you read Tolkien.
