The visual you're posting is one of the few things I miss about paper books. In one picture you're communicating your preferences and experiences, and I know a dozen conversations I could have with you from our shared experiences in the stories we've read.
I've found ebooks are a much better fit for my lifestyle, and their many benefits, the cost of which is I can't share one picture with you the way you did for us here.
I feel this in my bones. I'm surrounded by friends with large libraries but I cannot give up so much space when I mostly read digitally. Nobody casually browses someone elses elibrary.
How will society evolve with this? Casting your eyes across someone's bookshelves has served us well as a social mechanism for a number of things since the widespread adoption of the Gutenberg press. With the absence of these book shelves, what will fill in those social vacuums or will we just go without?
I do not have an account there, but if I understand what it is then maybe things like goodreads for books or letterboxd for movies. These don't allow for that casual thing though that you described, where someone unintentionally makes those connections. I think the sincerity of connections are more palpable when it is someones bookshelf. I hope I am not alone in looking away from ads in the world or pausing audio when skipping isn't an option. I would never look away from someones bookshelf though, because I assume if it is on their shelf then it speaks to them. Sincerity probably cannot be made up elsewhere. I'm thinking we may just go without and that makes me sad.
By "there" do you mean Project Gutenberg or something like that? u/partial_accumen wasn't referring to any particular site, but the physical invention that made books mass-produceable and precipitated the proliferation of books (and, therefore, literacy) to the common man.
You've got a lot of great stuff on that shelf outside of the WoT books.
Thank you; I certainly think so.
The visual you're posting is one of the few things I miss about paper books. In one picture you're communicating your preferences and experiences, and I know a dozen conversations I could have with you from our shared experiences in the stories we've read.
I've found ebooks are a much better fit for my lifestyle, and their many benefits, the cost of which is I can't share one picture with you the way you did for us here.
I feel this in my bones. I'm surrounded by friends with large libraries but I cannot give up so much space when I mostly read digitally. Nobody casually browses someone elses elibrary.
How will society evolve with this? Casting your eyes across someone's bookshelves has served us well as a social mechanism for a number of things since the widespread adoption of the Gutenberg press. With the absence of these book shelves, what will fill in those social vacuums or will we just go without?
I do not have an account there, but if I understand what it is then maybe things like goodreads for books or letterboxd for movies. These don't allow for that casual thing though that you described, where someone unintentionally makes those connections. I think the sincerity of connections are more palpable when it is someones bookshelf. I hope I am not alone in looking away from ads in the world or pausing audio when skipping isn't an option. I would never look away from someones bookshelf though, because I assume if it is on their shelf then it speaks to them. Sincerity probably cannot be made up elsewhere. I'm thinking we may just go without and that makes me sad.
By "there" do you mean Project Gutenberg or something like that? u/partial_accumen wasn't referring to any particular site, but the physical invention that made books mass-produceable and precipitated the proliferation of books (and, therefore, literacy) to the common man.