Posted: May 02, 2020 8:14 am
Kaleid wrote:Hey surr! I don't personally see Kindles as soulless *puts pretentious art teacher hat on* the 'soul' should come from the words, not the medium that gets them to you *takes hat off, burns* but I think a happy balance can be struck. There's a wonderful nostalgia and comfort an old, well-thumbed book can bring you, but as Hermit pointed out, digitised books gifts us all accessibility in terms of hard-to-get or out of print books, and it's great for searching for key passages we remember. From my point of view, it doesn't need to be either/or
Good point about differentiating between medium and message, but you misread my post(s). Yes, digitised books are more accessible in terms of search functions within any one of them, but at this stage millions of paper based publications are yet to be digitised. I am reminded of the time DVDs were a new thing. For each title that was available on DVD there would have been a hundred or more on old fashioned video cassette tape and an even more massive number archived in film and broadcasting studios. At this stage projects like Google Books have made hardly a dent into the available amount that is not digitised yet.