Henry
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just a comment about the difference of reading a physical book vs an ebook. I purchased "The Curse of Chalion" back in 2001 and held onto it for over 12 years before I got my first Kindle. The book shows all the wear and literally over a hundred times that I've gone through it - but the e-readers can't show any of that. Isn't there something very different from handling a physical book and flipping through pages?
Lois McMaster Bujold
The biggest difference for me is exactly that -- big -- the ability in ebooks to enlarge the type so my aging eyes can comfortably read it. I've given away scads of old paperbacks and some hardcovers that have print now too small for me.
I do agree about the tactile memory pleasure of a beloved much-read paper book.
My late brother said he'd read Chalion over 40 times. Whatever literary nourishment it was giving him must have been very great, or very needed. I never did tease out from him exactly what.
Ta, L.
The biggest difference for me is exactly that -- big -- the ability in ebooks to enlarge the type so my aging eyes can comfortably read it. I've given away scads of old paperbacks and some hardcovers that have print now too small for me.
I do agree about the tactile memory pleasure of a beloved much-read paper book.
My late brother said he'd read Chalion over 40 times. Whatever literary nourishment it was giving him must have been very great, or very needed. I never did tease out from him exactly what.
Ta, L.
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Melinda
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In Falling Free, the name of the pirated Earth holovid the quaddies watch in the clubhouse is "The Prisoner of Zenda". That's the name of a real book (an abysmally-terrible 1894 adventure novel that spawned a whole genre of works featuring British people messing about with fictional Eastern European countries in political turmoil). Why the nod to that book? Some any metaphorical connection I've missed?
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