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Originally Posted by Ankh
Labeling him as an "old technophobe" falls into (over)simplification, as far as I am concerned.
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Kaufman clearly romanticizes "the book," to the point of attributing reverent status to it. But as he waxes over the wonders of the content, he suggests that that content will be irrevocably and horribly changed by moving it from ink to electrons. And sure, he brings up the recent Amazon book-deleting fiasco, as if Amazon somehow sent out a magic virus that swept the globe and wiped those books from the face of the Earth.
In multiple places he suggests that e-books are "evil," an insult to God, that e-books threaten human existence. He acts like ink printed on paper cannot be changed, lost, hateful or wrong.
Actually, it sounds very technophobic to me.