Comments | a_belletrist: Book on the Brain

a_belletrist

Book on the Brain

Apr 22, 2010 11:08

I have a powerful desire to be working on the book now, rather than doing my daytime job. But it's that time, and there's work-work to be done, so I'm trying to shove my brain over into that modality. It's resisting mightily.

( Media Format Matters )

stuff, writing

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lintra April 22 2010, 19:00:48 UTC

Books aren't ever completely going away. Especially once the terrorists figure out how to make the nanobots that eat wire. Seriously.

cochese April 22 2010, 19:59:47 UTC

I can see a kinesthetic difference with eBook readers. How you interact with the book or reader changing your experience of the book. I mean, even different types of books have a different effect on my experience. My yellowed 1960s printing of Robert E. Howard's Conan feels like a different experience from reading a modern printing of a novel. But a lot of that is my own sort of associations for what a "pulp printing" is versus modern printing ( ... )

cochese April 22 2010, 20:09:35 UTC

Another element to consider is: Would society as a whole care? Plenty of people insist that the quality of sound from CDs doesn't match vinyl records. And there are some music snobs who prefer vinyl. But most people get CDs or MP3s because they are just more convenient. And convenience often edges out quality in terms of how people lead their lives.

a_belletrist April 22 2010, 20:30:18 UTC

I didn't say anything was ruined. I said it was a different experience reading something that is pixilated rather than something that is a whole shape, which is a characteristic of typeset ( ... )

a_belletrist April 22 2010, 20:40:40 UTC

Society often doesn't care about a lot of very very important things, and this isn't something global or horrible.

How one takes in, processes and experiences information is probably not on most people's radar. Maybe it should be, as how and why we think is as important, if not more important, than what we think, as they are the bedrock upon which we form thought.

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flamfoohoyden April 22 2010, 20:58:52 UTC

Reading on my iphone (the free Masterpieces app) is wholly engaging. As a book collector, I will never give up buying/reading books, I just like the convenience of having something to read on a phone that I carry around all the time. Happily, I find that I totally forget what I'm reading upon, when the story transports me. I was astonished & pleased by my own adaptability. :)