tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post1250473395957810075..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: Stearns on Electronic ReadingLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-39059490099714607362010-09-15T15:27:09.827-04:002010-09-15T15:27:09.827-04:00Jim,
Our highfalutin tools do facilitate very sim...Jim,<br /><br />Our highfalutin tools do facilitate very similar experiences to the old-school stuff. But in some instances there a subtle changes. The advent of the iPod has elevated the single above the album; scattershot has become the new normal in music collections. Now, I think that's more than balanced by the improvements in audiobooks and ease of transport. We'll see if ebooks manage some kind of happy medium.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-65291001942358873372010-09-15T15:23:42.862-04:002010-09-15T15:23:42.862-04:00Deka,
Big book collections are fine as long as co...Deka,<br /><br />Big book collections are fine as long as collectors are actively reading through them. But nobody wants them to get so big that they <a href="http://isawlightningfall.blogspot.com/2008/06/wsj-book-collection-that-devoured-my.html" rel="nofollow">swallow our lives</a>.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-71122007056304017752010-09-15T05:16:37.883-04:002010-09-15T05:16:37.883-04:00It’s what you’re used to. We think nothing of watc...It’s what you’re used to. We think nothing of watching films on TVs these days. The whole idea of getting in the car and driving to a large building to sit in the dark with a few hundred other people is old-fashioned. Our TV died last week and so we bought a new one. As a test run I watched the last <i>Star Trek</i> film and I cannot honestly ever see me venturing inside a cinema ever again. It’s also an attitude thing. A computer is a tool, a TV is a tool, an iPad or and eBook reader is a tool. <i>War and Peace</i> doesn’t become any less no matter what media is used to display the words. I honestly find books with yellowing pages and poor-quality printing harder or my eyes that working on a laptop all day. I had one of the first eBook readers, the Rocket, and I liked it. If it could handle PDFs I’d still be using it. <br /><br />Take music for example. I have thousands of CDs and tapes – literally bookcases full of them – and their physical presence makes me feel good. All of them, every last one of them, could be held on the 1TB drive I have sitting next to me right now, it’s no bigger than a book. Kids these days don’t think of music in physical terms but experiential. The iPods and such are simply tools to facilitate that experience. Marketers have for so long concentrated on the packaging and less on the content. But things are changing.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-80533320177812079122010-09-14T17:28:57.333-04:002010-09-14T17:28:57.333-04:00wel.. i feel quite comfortable reading on a screen...wel.. i feel quite comfortable reading on a screen. About my personal library, is big, and some books are in good shape. others... not.Deka Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328847551867893941noreply@blogger.com