Thread: Kaufman links e-book trend to bookburning, Nazis
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:14 AM   #237
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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman View Post
And the widespread abandonment of books, bookstores nnd book culture, in favor of machines lead me to believe that our culture, our society, our civilization itself are heading for a monumental catastrophe.
I still fail to see how that follows from anything you said. Any logical links are missing completely. Can you actually read, or do you just write? Have you seen the main question people here are putting to you? How is reading off a plastic screen any different from reading off a sheet of paper? Apart from the fact that we don't need to have a separate plastic screen for each new piece of text? How is unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of cheap books worse than limited access to a few thousand expensive ones in your local bookstore?
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