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Mar. 30th, 2009 08:49 amGood quote I heard:
I was attending a class on antique books in a library. It was a free class and I'd come with my parents. My dad thought it was going to be like the Antique Road show and was going to hopefully have some books appraised. It was not.
Still, it was interesting.
At one point, one of the people asked what the teacher what he thought about the new Ebooks after all you can get hundreds of them down in one little reader thing and stuff. He picked up a book about Thomas Aquinus and said, "This book is over 600 years old. We can still feel it, read it and see the craftsmanship put into it just like someone could when it was first made. Where will your ebook be in 600 years?"
I like that. I've always liked the feel of a book in my hands. It gives it more weight and excitement to opening it up and wondering what I'll find inside. Like opening a package. Pointing and clicking seems so sterile and mechanical. The screens are so distant, you can't really run your finger across the page when you turn it. You can't hold it and give it to someone wrapped up for a present. Perhaps books are more expensive and things, but there's a certain warm feeling that I get looking at my overflowing bookshelf; the ability to go over to it and choose the book. Physically take it and then sit curled up on my bed to try and read it. Try because, of course, the cat will always try to put a stop to it.
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Speaking of books. I picked up Eats, Shoots and Leaves from a used bookstore in Santa Barbara. (It has a coffee stain on the paper cover, which gives it personality, I think.) It's a book about punctuation and it's a FUN read! Actually it's a book about how people use punctuation and how it evolved over time. Which I'm finding to be utterly fascinating.
One thing that came out of this is that I've found a good format to mimic for my fantasy writing book. Not completely, of course, but good enough.
I was attending a class on antique books in a library. It was a free class and I'd come with my parents. My dad thought it was going to be like the Antique Road show and was going to hopefully have some books appraised. It was not.
Still, it was interesting.
At one point, one of the people asked what the teacher what he thought about the new Ebooks after all you can get hundreds of them down in one little reader thing and stuff. He picked up a book about Thomas Aquinus and said, "This book is over 600 years old. We can still feel it, read it and see the craftsmanship put into it just like someone could when it was first made. Where will your ebook be in 600 years?"
I like that. I've always liked the feel of a book in my hands. It gives it more weight and excitement to opening it up and wondering what I'll find inside. Like opening a package. Pointing and clicking seems so sterile and mechanical. The screens are so distant, you can't really run your finger across the page when you turn it. You can't hold it and give it to someone wrapped up for a present. Perhaps books are more expensive and things, but there's a certain warm feeling that I get looking at my overflowing bookshelf; the ability to go over to it and choose the book. Physically take it and then sit curled up on my bed to try and read it. Try because, of course, the cat will always try to put a stop to it.
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Speaking of books. I picked up Eats, Shoots and Leaves from a used bookstore in Santa Barbara. (It has a coffee stain on the paper cover, which gives it personality, I think.) It's a book about punctuation and it's a FUN read! Actually it's a book about how people use punctuation and how it evolved over time. Which I'm finding to be utterly fascinating.
One thing that came out of this is that I've found a good format to mimic for my fantasy writing book. Not completely, of course, but good enough.
