A Father Talks with his Daughter about God: Sunday Morning in the Library

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sunday Morning in the Library

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4 comments:

Ruth said...: I feel like I'm stalking you. :|

Stuff you're posting just keeps resonating.

One of the talks we heard yesterday at the TED conference was by Paul Coulant, the Dean of Libraries at U of M. The book of poets/poems you linked in this illustration so beautifully expresses what he talked about Friday. The need to share intellectual property. The need to keep books, while also digitizing books for libraries and individuals. You can't share a book on a Kindle, he said. You can't give a book away on a Kindle. You can't read a Kindle book to your grandchild. You can't even sell a book on your Kindle. You can sell your Kindle, but you have to first remove all downloads.; Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:46:00 AM
Montag said...: Likewise.

And Mr. Coulant is right on about books. I like books, especially when the power goes off.

The enormous problem with all e-devices is that sooner or later, you must dance to the tune they want to play.
Sooner or later they will be shaping our intellectual tastes to suit their business models.

In a sense, it broadens horizons while narrowing freedoms.
What is wrong with that? An impossible paradox, you say?
For a native of Senegal 200 years ago, the Black Ship of Slavery widened their horizons while destroying their freedoms.

And in that paradox, I sense the darkness of possible futures, which are alien to the bright ones I hope for.; Sunday, April 10, 2011 11:38:00 AM
Montag said...: Plus the fact that my library would be awfully bare without books laying strewn about.
A library with a Kouple-Kindle (new-speak for "two Kindles") on the desk is not to my taste.; Sunday, April 10, 2011 11:43:00 AM
Unknown said...: I love books. I have a bunch of them. I'm surrounded by three walls of them as I type. But I love my Kindle too. It goes on airplanes with a huge library. It goes in the car with me for those waits where you have to find something to do. Yes, I have to put up with the constrictive rules Amazon's put on it, but hell, it's better than my taxes paying for Cruise missiles.

Ruth, you went to a TED conference? I am so jealous.; Monday, April 18, 2011 5:09:00 PM

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