The Null Device

Some authors in the US are complaining about used book sales cutting into their profits. I know... we need tougher copyright laws, severe penalties for redistributing books and universal copy-denial technologies to stem this nefarious tide of what amounts to theft. Umm...

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Posted by: Michael http:// Thu Mar 21 17:40:46 2002

I love the feel of a book. I love the smell and touch and sounds of turning pages, each turn of page bringing new ideas and new experience, new imaginings. Yet the best books are always the ones that have travelled and resisted the tide of time. The book of Kells comes to mind, and also the rage that the burning of books through various popular transitions of humainty, the burning of libraries are things that are anathema to me. Oh, you dont know what anathema means? Look it up - in a book. Preferably a second hand dictionary, maybe from a second hand book shop? As we teach children the importance of the new and the now, we remove them from the importance of the past and the gone. History isnt what happened years ago - it is this very moment. The very moment you have read these words, they will be history. recent, admittedly, but part of what cannot be taken back. Read books. They are good. even bad books are good. Just read them, know them, understand that there was a time when things were hard to

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Fri Mar 22 02:22:47 2002

Whoa, dude, lay off the caffeine already.