yellowdecorations:

libraryjournal:

booksinthekitchen:

fsgbooks:

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”

-Jonathan Franzen in his first-ever press conference.

This is literally how a 90-year-old person talks about computers.

“But it’ll just disappear! How do I know it’s still there when I turn the page? Get my grandson on the phone—he knows about these things.”

Grandpa Franzen strikes again.

I’m currently trying to go paperless for grad school (no more printing out articles etcetc) and this was something i definitely felt weird about. you interact with a physical piece of paper much differently than you do with a screen. it also just feels… wrong. BUT i feel better about not wasting so much paper (and money) and have learned to just save everything in pdf.

Conversations like this sort of kill me, because everyone wants to act like digital publishing is the end of ink and paper and the world and there has to be an either or. That just isn’t true. It’s a preference thing and people will continue doing what they feel comfortable with. It doesn’t mean that I’m this anti-future person because I write things down, just like it doesn’t mean that people with e-readers don’t read “serious” literature- whatever that is. People need to stop reading so much into everything. That tendency is why I don’t like a lot of people. It’s awesome that Kt is trying to do school without paper, and it’s awesome that I print stuff out to make notes. We both rule, end of story.