Oh I read the entire thing. But just to give you a little background on myself ...
I'm the guy who refuses to own a car and rides a bicycle everywhere. I'm also the guy that mows my lawn with a scythe and a manual power reel mower. And I'm also the guy that heats my home with wood. Oh and I'm the guy that refuses to buy a chainsaw and cuts all my firewood with an axe. So in some regards I am a confirmed luddite. ;;) And then I come in and hop on my WiFi laptop and post digitally scanned photographs on the internet. ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:56:00 PM > Subject: Re: on paper (was: Re: Our Book and other book pictures) > > Bob W wrote: > > There are more pleasures in reading than just reading. > > From the article I referenced (that everyone, apparently, refuses to read): > > "Books? Every one of us in this room could write an anthem to the book. The > feel > of a fine binding, the smell of newly opened pages, the satisfying heft of a > book in your hands -- can anything top it? When I get home at night, before > dinner I sit with a drink in my hand in a room full of books, each one of > them > an old friend who has accompanied me on part of my life voyage. The book of > poems I loved in college, the biography that first introduced me to a great > historical figure twenty years ago, the novel that entertained me on a > vacation, > or maybe the one that explained a piece of the world to me. " > > "As you can see, I can get sentimental about these things we call, by > inference, > the old media. They mean a lot to me, emotionally as well as economically -- > and > I suspect they do to all of you, too. I believe they are, after food, > clothing > and shelter, and after our family relations and our friendships, the most > important things in our lives. > > "And I believe one more thing: I believe they, and all forms of print, are > dead. > Finished. Over. Perhaps not in my professional lifetime, but certainly in > that > of the youngest people in this room. " > > "...let me put it this way: you may prefer to ride across town in > horse-and-carriage, or across a lake in a wind-powered yacht, but no one > makes > that carriage or that yacht for you anymore, at least not at a reasonable > price. > So too with the book in the future..." > > Read the whole (short) piece: http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0002/okrent.htm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
