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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
A group of us, with our readers, showing him WHY they are so important.........now thats something else.
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I doubt that would work. Some people really have that irrational and highly emotional reaction to e-books. Personally I'm puzzled but that's all. Everybody is entitled to their tastes. I don't like donuts, but I am not comparing people who eat them to Hitler
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
For all his prosaic pronunciations, Kaufman is so far from "getting it," you'd think he was on another plane of existence altogether. He's actually worried about books being burned.
He needs to be worried about books being forgotten. Or a society that can't spread them around.
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That sounds more realistic, but it's exagerated IMO. Books used to be the only means of spreading stories and knowledge. Now they have competition. I don't like it much, but I doubt it's going to bring about the end of the world. Unless you consider that the world, as we know it, dies every day.
Oh no, what did I just write? Am I going into Jedi master mode?
Anyway, I'm sure there must be a gazillion threads about the disappearance of books, and its connection to the end of the world. I just don't buy it. Nobody used to think that peasants or shoemakers should read books, quite the contrary. Now they can, and some of them certainly do. Many don't bother, but I don't think there are more now than there used to be. I think we live in a very enlightened era, if you care to compare the state of the whole population now and then, instead of the whole population now with a small elite of the past.
I'm sure I could say more on that subject, but I'm getting tired and distracted. I just hope that what I wrote makes some sense
