For the record: I love trees

[pjthompson]

I love them so much I want to surround myself with the dried pulp of their flesh.

Kindle is a great idea, saves trees, yadda yadda. But it will never replace the musty-sweet scent of books or the weight of one in my hand, the luxurious feel of turning pages.

If that makes me hopelessly old school, so be it.

I've almost reconciled myself to that fact.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I'm with you -- I adore trees, but love my books. Pretty much for the same reasons you do, too, and it's a reason I've tried to explain to our company's CEO when he stops by my cubicle every now and then for chit-chat. He's pushing us toward a computer-based product rather than book-based... maybe it'll work for us since we're academic, but it'd be a big FAIL for me if we were fiction.

[pjthompson]

Yep. You can see it in some usages, but I sure would hate it if it became the universal.

Plus, electronic data is just as fragile (maybe more so) than paper. One good magnetic pulse and bye-bye.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly! Too much reliance on electronic storage will only lead to another Library of Alexandria.

[pjthompson]

Not to mention that historians will have nothing to pour over generations hence because it will all have been periodically purged.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Me tooooo.

[pjthompson]

::sigh::

[hollailama.livejournal.com]

*sits by PJ* Yep yep.

[pjthompson]

*hands you a book*