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mk  ·  4681 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And the true threat to reading and literature, according to Jonathan Franzen, is...
True enough. I don't mean to say any skepticism of new technology might just be me being crotchety. If I have taken the time to understand the technology, well then yes, I do feel I have the right to critique it, even if I am 100 years old.

What I'm really getting at is the kind of response that Franzen is making. He's basically saying that ebooks just don't feel right, and that they aren't as as reassuring to him as books. That's the kind of critique I want to avoid as I get older.

BTW, yeah, big issues about the cloud.