cocksuckingnincompoop:

morejoyful:

religionisbullshit:

sorryidontswim:

fungi:

I love how Kindle thinks they’re so innovative with their “no-glare” screen. You know what else has no glare? A book

BLESS YOU

TECHNOLOGY!?!? make reading easier!??!!??!! hahaha fuck off 21 century! i dont need your fancy no glare screens. the ability to hold THOUSANDS of books in a convenient, lightweight package??!?? why the fuck would any human on the planet want that? i have one single book. in fact, i think we need to cut down more trees! there are too many trees here

As someone whose favorite sort of book is the kind that was handwritten on the skins of dead animals, ebooks and other digital media are an absolute godsend. A traditional high-quality manuscript facsimile in print can cost tens of thousands of dollars, while digitalized versions that are just as good if not better (because they can be magnified, which is so immensely useful) are usually free, and instead of having to fly half-way around the world and undergo an interrogation and strip-search to use them (as one often must to get access to anything in a manuscript library), you can download them and read them at home in your underpants on your iPhone, iPad, Kindle, computer, etc. 

It’s funny, because academia obviously has its problems with elitism, and has the reputation of the ivory tower and all that, but you know, most people who actually study books for a living absolutely love digital media, even if they don’t want it to completely replace print media. So it’s really funny when people who snob all over ~real books and moan about how Kindles are killing ~literature act like they are some sort of sacred repositories of a culture of reading and literacy that must be defended from the onset of modernity. Literature and literacy existed well before the advent of print media and will continue to exist well after it.

(Do you think people were such massive assholes when print first became a thing? “I love how Gutenberg thinks he’s so innovative with his printed Bible. You know who else can make a Bible? A bajillion monks in a scriptorium handwriting that shit for six months!”)

If OP is so obsessed with ~paper~ they should get off the internet and go back to writing letters to communicate.

Actually, some people were dicks about the first printed books, which only makes it funnier:

“[A]s early as the 15th century, some nobles refused to have printed books in their libraries, thinking that to do so would sully their valuable handcopied manuscripts. Similar resistance was later encountered in much of the Islamic world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, and also in the Far East. Despite this resistance, Gutenberg’s printing press spread rapidly, and within thirty years of its invention in 1453, towns and cities across Europe had functional printing presses.” – Eras of Elegance

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