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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
We are slowly dissolving in a catastrophe of blandness. A stainless steel tableau of screen-mummified generic looking clone people placidly seated in the sun on perfect lawns of Astroturf, gaping at laptops and ipods and Blackberries. A fear-constricted world painted in the fading pastels of distraction- benumbed senses. A world in which fewer and fewer people bother to read books that engage you. I don't mean Harry Potter or James Patterson. I mean The Brothers Karamazov. I mean Madame Bovary, Sound and Fury, War and Peace, Bleak House.
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You clearly haven't visited our book upload section, then.
We have French and Russian classics of the nineteenth century.
I've been known to spend weeks making electronic versions of my favourite authors in the public domain. It might be quite difficult for people in remote locations to get their hands on a work by Huysmans or the Goncourts. Now they can do it easily and freely.
Arguably, we are making literature
more accessible, not less.
But thanks for taking the time to explain your views.