“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.”
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.
This is a cute point but irrelevant cause I can always move stuff around in a real book too. And I do. I mean, probably there’s no real problem with e-readers besides personal ones, and upsetting the literary elite cause for the most part e-books are “bad” but like whatever. I’m not going to stop buying real books anytime soon but what’s it to me if somebody uses an e-reader? The more reading, the better.
(via 52projects)
