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Seeing as the rise of the book coincided with the rise of humanism itself, it is not idle to worry that abolishing the first will mean abandoning the second. We can still feel the truth of Petrarch's paean to the book, written seven centuries ago: "Gold, silver, gems, fine raiment, a marble palace, well-cultivated fields, paintings, a splendidly caparisoned horse — such things as these give one nothing more than a mute and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they converse with us, they give us good advice; they become living and lively companions to us." Somehow, with the Sony Reader, it's just not the same.
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Wow. What a load of elitist crap.
I was just listening to The Beatles on my ipod and noticed that I can no longer feel the truth of the music compared to vinyl records. Somehow without the pop and hiss, it's just not good music anymore.
Also, I was watching "I Love Lucy" on my HDTV. It just isn't funny when you can't see the television scan lines.
Remember kids, it isn't the content that gives you pleasure it's the delivery method you use to inject it into your brain.
I can't think of any worse punishment than sitting in a room with this guy listening to him spout lame college freshman philosophy.