January 30th, 2012 at 5:51PM
Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading

libraryjournal:

booksinthekitchen:

fsgbooks:

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”

-Jonathan Franzen in his first-ever press conference.

This is literally how a 90-year-old person talks about computers.

“But it’ll just disappear! How do I know it’s still there when I turn the page? Get my grandson on the phone—he knows about these things.”

Grandpa Franzen strikes again.

I’m currently trying to go paperless for grad school (no more printing out articles etcetc) and this was something i definitely felt weird about. you interact with a physical piece of paper much differently than you do with a screen. it also just feels… wrong. BUT i feel better about not wasting so much paper (and money) and have learned to just save everything in pdf.
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    Because, you know, I needed one more reason to dislike Franzen, fucking wanker that he is. Franzen seems to feel that...
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    also you are not a “literature-crazed” person if you think enabling people to move language around is somehow a bad...
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    Conversations like this sort of kill me, because everyone wants to act like digital publishing is the end of ink and...
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    feel. Won’t do
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    I’m currently trying to go paperless for grad school (no more printing out articles etcetc) and this was something i...
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    We all just need to give up on fighting ebooks. Yes they look nice and smell nice. Yes there are current...
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    I saw the headline and I was like, “Aw man I hate that guy, why does everybody always tug his pud?” and then… YESSSSSSS.
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