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Old 10-29-2009, 02:09 PM   #71
Jack Tingle
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Originally Posted by Ankh View Post
In essence, he has written an emotional piece in defence of the literature...
That's not how I read it. It seems to me to be a defense of paper books as some kind of mystical, ensouled entities. In effect, he accuses anyone who likes ebooks of zombifying these mystic entities by transmogrifying them into soulless ebooks, where they tragically reside in a sort of digital purgatory, corrupting the souls of all who read them. Exactly how the Nazis come in, I'm not sure, but he seems to equate ebook publishers with the death camp guards. Or something.

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