[Pietro]

As someone that loves books; the look of them, the feel of them, the worth of them, I veiw this push as yet one more thing of beauty and simplicity being flushed down the toilet of convenience. This is not about making literature and writing more available but rather a move to take over publishing.

Has music gotten better since the emergence of the ipod? Computers are now writing pop music, how brilliant is that?

Steve Bezo, having made billions on books is now trying to destroy books as a universal medium. There's no lower life form than one that will bite the hand that feeds it.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Were people like this when we went from scrolls to books? Were people like this when Gutenberg developed the printing press? Were people like this when movable type faces were invented? Were people like this when self-publishing started?

The words are the value, but even with that truth established,, the medium of the printed “book” will not disappear. A first edition of “Tom Sawyer” is still a keepsake, a valuable item with intrinsic value.

But if I download a copy of “Tom Sawyer” on my Kindle and read it I’m somehow destroying “books as a universal medium”?

As literate people, I know you know this word: hyperbole.

[HungarianGypsy]

I read a quote in Reader’s Digest from some PBS Political commentator, who could not understand why people would have so much music, then (being so much more wise than the little people) said he instead listened to audio books. I need to be able to use see, feel, and touch my books as I read. While, I can get behind a lot of technology, books is one place I cannot. But, that’s just me.

[Madame Dufarge]

As someone that loves books; the look of them, the feel of them, the worth of them, I veiw this push as yet one more thing of beauty and simplicity being flushed down the toilet of convenience.

I feel the same and am especially enamored of BPC (Before Political Correctness) books.

We're living in an old Victorian white elephant and I derive a hard-to-describe comfort going from room to room and finding books everywhere.