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Old 08-24-2009, 04:34 PM   #4
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When I first got my ebook reader, I decided to break it in by reading the most ironic titles I could think of.

I finished Fahrenheit 451 and I'm halfway through Walden. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
1984, of course, with its mentions of editing archives, and especially in light of Amazon's recent actions.

I haven't finished A Canticle For Leibowitz, but it starts with a post-apocalyptic setting in which monks are painstakingly re-creating archives of printed paper documents by hand. Reading about that on a digital device seems to have a nice symmetry. Or irony. I get those mixed up sometimes.

If The Elements of Typographic Style were (legally) available in digital format, it'd be perfect.
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