well, as with vinyl - Amazon's "Kindle" has nothing on printed and bound books the details and feeling of the binding, the quality of the paper, the smell of the book, the little joy in slowly turning the page, and the whole culture of bookstores, etc. all missed out by the digital book reader
in the end I suppose it matters now how you get the message across to the audience (words or music) but it is those nuances that make the experience different imho, like how digital cuts out music into little blocks of sound - you lose something there just as the reader is missing out with the digital word my 2ยข and I'm out MEK Andrew Beddow <andrew.bed...@gmail.com> wrote on 02/17/2009 01:13:48 PM: > > now with the democratization of djing, everyone knows how to dj > > supposedly.... the printing press was indeed an innovation, but the > > quality of literary output is surely down in a world where literacy is > > epidemic and books are published every day only to be thrown out the > > next, where writing has devolved into txting and blogging. just as it > > is with the written word, so too with electronic music in my book. > > > > oh my god, incredible analogy. sorry, have nothing to contribute to > this discussion, but amazing! text speak is the fault of the printing > press! > > andrew
