si should i stay, o should i go

[highways]

I dislike a lot of what's going on in this post. And what the hell is happening in this thread: "What's sad is that even Fahrenheit 451 is coming true. They aren't burning the books, though. They're digitizing them, making them into convenient little travel sized bits that slowly but surely are never getting read again." What. Is Project Gutenberg really where the brutal, fascist dystopia begins?

Barely related, bitchy tangent: whenever someone brings up ebooks, someone else without fail brings up the wonderful ~smell~ of an old paper book. Dude, we get it. You wish you lived in a used stationary shop. Me, I sort of enjoy carrying dozens and dozens of free classics with me wherever I go, and I do it everyday. I guess that means I don't love books like you do, and I'm sorry for that.

In other news, I have school, it's terrible. Okay no, not really, but I think it might involve like, work and stuff, boo.

Comments

[queenofspades]

Oh dude, seriously. Considering that in an increasingly digital world - a world whose natural resources are fading quickly - paper is rapidly becoming obsolete. e-books are just as tangible and useful as paper copies, they're just more enviro-friendly and convenient. And they won't wear out as quickly, and you can save some fuckin' trees, and you can basically ctrl+f anything you need as opposed to rifling through dozens of books for hours. And personally, I think books smell like dust and mold. That does not smell good. That smells like it's time to sneeze. I love my Kindle, dammit. And I really like having free downloads of the complete works of Oscar Wilde. You can't get that with paper copies.

[highways]

Oh yeah that search function is freaking amazing; plus yeah, I download a crapload of books from feebooks.com for free, legally even, and there's no way you can get paper books for free, even if they're out of copyright, because the materials still cost money.

[wembley]

What. Is Project Gutenberg really where the brutal, fascist dystopia begins?

WOWWWW. And yeah, I do prefer physical dead-tree books, but there's no moral justfication for it... it kills trees, it's uncessary. Wow, that comment.

[highways]

Yeeeeeeeeah, and I mean when it comes to accessibility options, paper books cannot at all compete with digital copies, especially since the technology is probably going to jump in the next few years. So really, it just boggles my mind that making ebooks is somehow equivalent to destroying them forever.