Re: response to Jeff
- From: MyGopherHole@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: response to Jeff
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:09:27 EST
In a message dated 3/22/01 10:44:50 AM Central Standard Time,
Kellscraft@[redacted] writes:
> And, let's face it, I have a personal issue involved here. The smell of an
> old book, dusty and musty and warm in the hands, can never compete with the
> cold, impersonal, mechanistic thing of an e-book reader. The best gift
> anyone can give is a book, perhaps inscribed inside with personal
> sentiment.
> What would be lost if the only thing we have left is a bunch of electronic
> bits floating in the ether, that has little to do with the joy of reading a
> real book. I'll keep my collection of books, thanks. And I'll struggle to
> keep printed works always going. It's too important to lose that touch of
> our humanity.
>
> What do others think? I'd like to hear some other views on this issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff Kelley
> www.kellscraft.com
>
Amen, Jeff! My pc is indeed a wonderful tool, but I still buy books, real
books, lots of books, for myself and as gifts. One of the things I did when
I got my pc about 3 years ago, was to immediately ferret out sites where I
could buy "real" books!
My "real" books never "crash", I don't have to wait for the pc to "boot up",
and I don't have to download them.
Now about these ebooks, they are great too! I think it is absolutely
wonderful that books I have never had the opportunity to read for one reason
or another, ie: not at the library, can't purchase because it is out of
print, or print too small to read in paper edition, are now becoming
available to me by electronic means.
But give up "real" books? When pigs fly!
Arlene Hampton
AHamptonResearch@[redacted]