Jonathan Franzen Says eBooks Are Damaging
Author Jonathan Franzen is against eBooks. “Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do,” he said while speaking at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia.
“When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place,” he is quoted as saying in The Telegraph UK. “The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing – that’s reassuring.”
Franzen defended the paperback technology saying that he could spill water on it and it would still work.
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