Lee, you are so right with this fountain pen example. I do have some
wonderful fountain pens, Parker and MontBlanc. And occasionally I want
to us them. But then the ink in the tip has dried up and i need to dip
in water and rub and blot until i get them to work. Then I again leave
them lie around and after a few months when I get nostalgic again, the
procedure needs to be repeated.
The young ones don't even know anymore when we sat in school, with
ink pots built in to our desks and when every tablet had a blotting
paper included. I saved dozen of them, any need? Some blottings I can
still read when I hold them against the mirror. One leg in the past,
the other in the future. So ist das Leben.
Marta
On Mar 19, 2009, at 12:08 pm, Lee Larson wrote:
On Mar 19, at 11:33 AM, Marta Edie wrote:
But what happens to us, who do like to stroke the book covers and
delight in the feel of the linen and the print and the long rows on
book cases. I grant the Kindle is marvellous for travelling, I am
just reading Ovid's Metamorphoses on my iPhone, a free download.
The Kindle sounds lovely -- with reservations.
I guess I'm more concerned with content and accessibility than form.
As prices fall, interfaces improve and content migrates it won't be
long until most people prefer the new way of reading.
Some examples come to mind.
My grandmother used to nostalgically recall the wonderful fountain
pens she was given as a graduation present. I noticed she always
used a ball point pen because it was cheap and easy. (The
"wonderful" fountain pens needed to be filled with ink and cleaned.
They sat in a drawer.)
I have several audiophile acquaintances who love their old LPs and
fondly talk of the "warm" sound they give. Several researchers have
pretty conclusively shown the "warm" sound comes from a combination
of turntable rumble and manufacturing limitations inherent in vinyl
pressing.
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