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Originally Posted by Crowl
It just seems so odd to me that anyone could seriously claim that a digital version was somehow soulless compared with a paper version, surely it is down to the writer and the words he or she uses to give a work soul?
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No, actually they are. By extension, only those writers who submit their work on paper (using de-souled trees, which are converted into souled books) send out books that already have a soul. All those other books are soulless [read: meritless] until they are printed.
Ergo it's the printing (and perhaps to a lesser extent typesetting) that gives those books their soul, not the authors. It's a really neat argument, though it might offend some writers (except, of course, the incomparable JKGrowling)..
