When I initially did a search on books and clip art. AI initially provided kiddi images of books in primary colors, then books with flowers until I found this image. I didn't want to spend a considerable amount of time looking for the right image but my search terms in the past think that that's what I was looking for. I posted this one out of lassitude.
I was fortunate in that my parents had a library, there was a constant supply of books and my personal library probably contains about 5000 books, which does not come close to the actual books I've read. Books are knowledge. Knowledge is power and my concern that buying digital books is going to be a problem is coming true. They are no longer yours to keep gift or pass on, you're paying a small rental fee to buy them and if that particular ebook device goes under good luck with the purchases that add up quickly. I like the convenience and when it comes to tech thrillers, I'm not interested in keeping them.
Right now with the school year starting we're talking about books then forget the topic. I miss bookstores that one could browse through to find something interesting, people discussing books from the best seller lists and connecting.
There is a trend of posting the amount of books a year that one has read as an incentive to read.
Behavior is not changing. We are told how to change it and to replace it with poorly written articles and an onslaught of 'news' on our digital development ices (devices). This is what I am talking about. Choices that are being made for us and terminology that is being selected for us so it becomes what we think about.
A few years back when various countries were fleeing their own, publishers responded by publishing and promoting nothing but diaspora stories. A decade ago when Twilight and Hunger games took off, the amount of shelving space devoted to young adult supernatural romance was bigger than the fantasy science fiction section combined. The geeks are aging I'd like good adult themed (philosophical) sci fi.
Then comes generation alpha brought up in a digital ADD world while people are told to reduce their libraries, which reminds me of my favorite scenes in a mediocre movie: the library before and after an apocalyptic change.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDD1mUjUjBk&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0CWZ7ywzDnA
Books as the remnant of civilization. Let's not end up there.
Agreed. Let's not.
ReplyDeleteThe second clip's T.S. Eliot reference surprised me, and then I remembered Prufrock and felt a chill.
Codex: These fragments are shored against my ruins is Wasteland. Did he use it again in Prufrock? Not familiar with the latter poem.
DeleteWell. If we digitalize (too much) and don't fight for analog copies it could happen.
Enough Outrage and politicians listen.
DB, should I have just provided the movie clips?! *winks*
A book is a gift you can open up again and again. That used to be the slogan for Book Token Ireland in the 1980s. (Book Tokens are gift vouchers to be redeemed in bookshops around the country.)
ReplyDeleteCodex: Great idea. Similar to gift cards or where they government funded? The good ones are great for rereading and reference. And should have taught us what not to do again.
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