Comments on: Tools of Change: Smart Women Read Ebooks http://www.edrants.com/tools-of-change-smart-women-read-ebooks/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nice Mommy~Evil Editor » Blog Archive » Friday confessional 2-13-2009 http://www.edrants.com/tools-of-change-smart-women-read-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-250893 Nice Mommy~Evil Editor » Blog Archive » Friday confessional 2-13-2009 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:18:38 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10397#comment-250893 [...] post with some thoughts on my (our) panel along with a link to a video interview with SB [...] [...] post with some thoughts on my (our) panel along with a link to a video interview with SB [...]

]]> By: Toc: Preview of Smart Women Read Ebooks Panel | Booksquare http://www.edrants.com/tools-of-change-smart-women-read-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-250892 Toc: Preview of Smart Women Read Ebooks Panel | Booksquare Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:56:11 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10397#comment-250892 [...] Edward Champion Written Report: Thanks to Ed for this great write-up of our panel. It went by so fast, I’m glad you captured so much of what we said. [...] [...] Edward Champion Written Report: Thanks to Ed for this great write-up of our panel. It went by so fast, I’m glad you captured so much of what we said. [...]

]]> By: Miracle Jones http://www.edrants.com/tools-of-change-smart-women-read-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-250866 Miracle Jones Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:10:26 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10397#comment-250866 Books are obviously an "anti-social experience." This is just obvious. Reading is to conversation (and writing) as masturbation is to intercourse. Ever notice that, contrary to everybody's wild fantasies, libraries are terrible places to meet people? When you read, you want to feel as if (finally, gloriously), you are alone with your own thoughts and those of a well-chosen, particular friend. I have a feeling that now that all of these executives at big publishing companies are losing their jobs, they are going to be snapped up by consortiums who will be creating effective, ACTUALLY reader-friendly ebook formats. Mind porn. Onanistic leather fetish devices. The ideal eReader: an object that looks like a grimoire bound in human skin, but is a different book every time you open it. Books are obviously an “anti-social experience.” This is just obvious. Reading is to conversation (and writing) as masturbation is to intercourse.

Ever notice that, contrary to everybody’s wild fantasies, libraries are terrible places to meet people?

When you read, you want to feel as if (finally, gloriously), you are alone with your own thoughts and those of a well-chosen, particular friend. I have a feeling that now that all of these executives at big publishing companies are losing their jobs, they are going to be snapped up by consortiums who will be creating effective, ACTUALLY reader-friendly ebook formats.

Mind porn. Onanistic leather fetish devices. The ideal eReader: an object that looks like a grimoire bound in human skin, but is a different book every time you open it.

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