Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading

thelifeguardlibrarian:

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.

It is a really kooky line of thinking.  

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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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