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Originally Posted by SilverBear
As I sagely opined in an earlier post in this thread, [condensed], "sod Franzen and the pretensions he's cleverly trying to ride into the public view upon!."
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Yeah, but why impugn his motives? And why assume that he's being pretentious? I mean, I don't particularly agree with him, but I don't really think that he's being pretentious...I just think while some of his points about the advantages of pbooks might be true, he has failed to consider the many advantages that e-books bring. That's not pretentious, though.
And I don't at all get what you mean about him "trying to ride into public" view on this. Do you even know who he is? If so, why do you think giving an interview critical of e-books to a newspaper would rank more than selling millions of critically acclaimed books, winning major writing awards, and being the subject of numerous interviews, articles, and TV programs?
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I'll sit for an hour or more with a like-minded friend and rhapsodise about the feel, the smell, and the taste of a fine old hardbound. . .
BUT I am much more concerned with getting the full range of nourishment to everyone who is hungry for knowledge --than I am concerned with playing "refined old gourmand"!
VIVA EBOOKS!
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Again, it's fine that you disagree with him. But I think your assumption that he somehow doesn't believe what he's saying is, well, not based on facts and gratuitously insulting to Franzen.