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¶ by Rob FrieselDoctorow does it again: Eastern Standard Tribe. Download your free copy now. Then buy. B/c this man is brilliant and needs to be read.
Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more
words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people are reading fewer words off of fewer pages than ever before. That doesn’t mean that the book is dying–no more than the advent of the printing press and the de-emphasis of Bible-copying monks meant that the book was dying–but it does mean that the book is changing. I think that literature is alive and well: we’re reading our brains out! I just think that the complex social practice of “book”–of which a bunch of paper pages between two covers is the mere expression–is transforming and will transform further.
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