Do eReaders dream of electric librarians?
Hold on for Round Three of higgledy piggledy.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,413 words on "John Four," and found THE END. It's a strange story, maybe even strange for me. Maybe even grim for me, right down to the irony in the Biblical allusion of its title. I wrote yesterday's pages to the Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. It was the ( Read more... )
Yesterday, I wrote 1,413 words on "John Four," and found THE END. It's a strange story, maybe even strange for me. Maybe even grim for me, right down to the irony in the Biblical allusion of its title. I wrote yesterday's pages to the Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. It was the ( Read more... )
True. I have arthritis and find eReaders very uncomfortable to hold, and just the other day dropped (twice) the demonstration model at the local Barnes & Noble. I also find them hard on the eyes. They're not for me.
This style of reading is becoming popular at my local library, where they have a couple thousand digital books available.
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This style of reading is becoming popular at my local library, where they have a couple thousand digital books available.
All this just makes me sad.
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Libraries aren't stocking real books? OK, my jaw just dropped. Sometimes I am such a Luddite.
I've watched as books lose space to public computer terminals for years...
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They still stock real books, but they also have a few (in comparison to the 162K real books on the shelves) digital books.
In undergrad philosophy, we called this a slippery slope...
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