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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/16/2009 6:56:46 PM

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Something I also wonder about is highlighting. It's a key tool of mine for engaging a text, and it would seem impossible to do in an ebook.

Just another note about the Kindle....I don't think you can highlight things but you can "bookmark" them with the press of a button. It stores each line or passage you bookmark for easy access later. It'll stay bookmarked until you "uncheck" it..........luci

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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/16/2009 7:11:18 PM

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i use an e-text for one of my classes. It cost 1/2 the price of the print text. i can do searches and print a page if i want to. When the class is over i don't have to try to sell my book back.

...And don't tell me to keep my text books, because i did that when i was in college the first time in the 1960's and have not referred to a single text and now they are quite obsolete.

i remember how the libraries fought paperback books and then books on tape as not being "real" books. Maybe there was resistance to converting from scrolls to books way back when. Schools used to use "hornbooks" and slates for reading and writing.

There will always be a repository of written works in some form or other.

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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/16/2009 7:14:45 PM

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There will always be a repository of written works in some form or other.

And hallelujah for that!!!!

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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/17/2009 12:02:26 PM

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He's thinking of books as solely things you do research in. Books are more than that. They are things that immerse you in a different world. Something you curl up with for comfort on a bad day, something that occupies your mind while sitting in a hospital waiting room.

Obviously he isn't a reader, a lover of books or he would understand intuitively what is wrong with this approach.

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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/17/2009 12:06:01 PM

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Nicholson Baker has an interesting New Yorker piece on the pluses and minuses of e-books.

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RE: A Library Without Books? - 9/17/2009 3:44:12 PM

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In earlier years- I routinely purchased rare books. I still have book cases full of them. I have to say - that the "pipe" can be shut off. Where as the books I own are not subject to a pipe shut off. This may sound trivial now- but in later years- much of my material could be censored.

The trend is toward book burning. Not toward more learning.

Physical books can outdate fast.

But online screens I tend to not have the attention span.

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