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Harmon · 08-23-2009, 01:57 PM

Interesting essay over at sshhh This is a Working Library:

http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/a...n_the_library/

"The promise of ebooks (or, one promise, anyway), is their inherent connectedness. On a whim or the turn of a phrase, I can leap from Shakespeare to Soyinka, finding similarities that didn’t exist before, or else existed but were yet unknown. In exchange for the loss of continuity, I gain a new space for metaphors: no longer within the texts, but between them."

08-23-2009, 01:57 PM	#1
Harmon King of the Bongo Drums Posts: 1,630 Karma: 5927225 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Excelsior! (Strange...)	It ain't the book, it's the shelving... Interesting essay over at sshhh This is a Working Library: http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/a...n_the_library/ "The promise of ebooks (or, one promise, anyway), is their inherent connectedness. On a whim or the turn of a phrase, I can leap from Shakespeare to Soyinka, finding similarities that didn’t exist before, or else existed but were yet unknown. In exchange for the loss of continuity, I gain a new space for metaphors: no longer within the texts, but between them."