(Via Disonancia, which is probably my favorite thing on the internet right now).
Tag: e-books
Roger Ebert’s Lovely, Sarcastic Tweets about E-books
Great series of tweets today from Roger Ebert about e-books. Here’s what he’s done so far–
Here’s my old e-book “10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories,” and written inside “To my boy Roger from Daddy.”
Look at this theater ticket stub I found! I used it in an old e-book, from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Needed: New Yorker cover showing Dr. Johnson in his library, a cup of tea at hand, with shelves and piles of his e-books.
I found this e-book on a top shelf of a used e-book store. Its cover somehow reached out to me.
I love to relax in my library and let my eyes stray over my e-books, each one triggering its own response.
We only met in the first place because she spotted the cover of the e-book I was reading across the aisle on the train.
Great stuff!
Jan Swafford Explains Why E-books Won’t Replace Real Books
Musicologist Jan Swafford’s article “Why E-books Will Never Replace Real Books” at Slate makes a good case for why we’ll still want printed books in the age of the iPad and Kindle (not that I needed convincing). From the article:
So real books and e-books will coexist. That has happened time and again with other new technologies that were prophesied to kill off old ones. Autos didn’t wipe out horses. Movies didn’t finish theater. TV didn’t destroy movies. E-books won’t destroy paper and ink. The Internet and e-books may set back print media for a while, and they may claim a larger audience in the end. But a lot of people who care about reading will want the feel, the smell, the warmth, the deeper intellectual, emotional, and spiritual involvement of print.
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