Comments on: Can Serious Literature Be Read Online? http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/ Commentary On 21st Century Poetics Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:13:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: medyum http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 medyum Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:14:51 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-1151 We can find some serious literature online most of them are copies of hard bound. We can find some serious literature online most of them are copies of hard bound.

]]> By: essayontime http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-623 essayontime Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:43:20 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-623 We can find some serious literature online most of them are copies of hard bound. We can find some serious literature online most of them are copies of hard bound.

]]> By: Sutapa Biswas http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Sutapa Biswas Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:39:06 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-624 It is really nice to hear things which will facilitate more then just a few people. In my point i would like to add that getting your word out is easier with online medium then it is with the contemporary ways. Also with the latest tablest and things coming to view , i think online reading will not mean you cannot read elsewhere. Perhaps a waterproof tablet will be available soon for your bathtub. All in all , i do appreciate your words. Also , and no i hope you dont take this as spam but i would appreciate if you can provide me some advice in terms of writing style. I have started anew on the online medium and any advice would be appreciated. You can find my work at www dot xpertika dot com ( dont want the link PR so now you are safe regarding the SEO of blog i hope) and let me know if there is anyting you find interesting. It was just started a couple days ago and will see a lot of stuff being added daily. :) Sutapa Biswass last blog post..<a href="http://www.xpertika.com/2009/02/15/celebrate-life/" rel="nofollow">Celebrate Life</a> It is really nice to hear things which will facilitate more then just a few people. In my point i would like to add that getting your word out is easier with online medium then it is with the contemporary ways.

Also with the latest tablest and things coming to view , i think online reading will not mean you cannot read elsewhere. Perhaps a waterproof tablet will be available soon for your bathtub.

All in all , i do appreciate your words. Also , and no i hope you dont take this as spam but i would appreciate if you can provide me some advice in terms of writing style. I have started anew on the online medium and any advice would be appreciated. You can find my work at www dot xpertika dot com ( dont want the link PR so now you are safe regarding the SEO of blog i hope) and let me know if there is anyting you find interesting.

It was just started a couple days ago and will see a lot of stuff being added daily. :)

Sutapa Biswass last blog post..Celebrate Life

]]> By: the poet http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-622 the poet Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:37:12 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-622 Ha ha. And solar-powered laptops. :-) Ha ha. And solar-powered laptops. :-)

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Gary B. Fitzgerald Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:20:37 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-629 Yes, but...when the power goes out, we'll all be back to books and horses, won't we? Yes, but…when the power goes out, we’ll all be back to books and horses, won’t we?

]]> By: Poetry News For February 8, 2009 | Poetry Hut Blog http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Poetry News For February 8, 2009 | Poetry Hut Blog Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:40:59 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-628 [...] Can Serious Literature Be Read Online? [...] [...] Can Serious Literature Be Read Online? [...]

]]> By: the poet http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-627 the poet Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:42:25 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-627 I love that ... "knee-jerk Tofflerism". I haven't read Alvin Toffler's books in a long time. I'm not sure that consumers will settle on Kindle. At least, not in its current iteration. There are very practical reasons why digital literature may appeal to future generations. <ul><li>No. 1, green-consciousness is growing</li> <li>Digital distribution allows the end user to format the text according to their own preferences</li> <li>Digital products are actually more "portable" in any form than even the smallest print product since they can be stored on a server and accessed from anywhere</li></ul> I could go on, but you get my drift. It is likely that future generations will look back and ask Grandpa, "What was it like to hold one of them paperbook back (sic) thingies in your actual hands?" As they review his last will and testament through a projection on the wall beamed from a laser chip implanted in the wall through the digital dataport from his executor's office 2,000 miles away. :-) I love that … “knee-jerk Tofflerism”. I haven’t read Alvin Toffler’s books in a long time.

I’m not sure that consumers will settle on Kindle. At least, not in its current iteration. There are very practical reasons why digital literature may appeal to future generations.

  • No. 1, green-consciousness is growing
  • Digital distribution allows the end user to format the text according to their own preferences
  • Digital products are actually more “portable” in any form than even the smallest print product since they can be stored on a server and accessed from anywhere

I could go on, but you get my drift.

It is likely that future generations will look back and ask Grandpa, “What was it like to hold one of them paperbook back (sic) thingies in your actual hands?” As they review his last will and testament through a projection on the wall beamed from a laser chip implanted in the wall through the digital dataport from his executor’s office 2,000 miles away. :-)

]]> By: Ted Burke http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Ted Burke Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:56:12 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-620 Yes, there's nothing any of us won't debate, and Thank God, because it would a drearier and more literal existence if we didn't, no? You might think you don't care what a book's medium happens to me but if, as you assert "....the literature is truly remarkable, then I'll want a hard copy-..." , then you do care about the form the text takes. The move toward buying books via download is inevitable, in my view, and the real issue is what one means by "hard copy". Without indulging in knee-jerk Tofflerism, my current best guess that book buyers will prefer a device like Kindle , or something similiar, to reading books either on line or from a computer monitor: as I said before, portability and ease of use are key for the consumer instinct. Such things were a large reason why most of us came to love books. Ted Burkes last blog post..<a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-are-republicans-so-mean.html" rel="nofollow">Why are Republicans So Mean?</a> Yes, there’s nothing any of us won’t debate, and Thank God, because it would a drearier and more literal existence if we didn’t, no? You might think you don’t care what a book’s medium happens to me but if, as you assert “….the literature is truly remarkable, then I’ll want a hard copy-…” , then you do care about the form the text takes. The move toward buying books via download is inevitable, in my view, and the real issue is what one means by “hard copy”. Without indulging in knee-jerk Tofflerism, my current best guess that book buyers will prefer a device like Kindle , or something similiar, to reading books either on line or from a computer monitor: as I said before, portability and ease of use are key for the consumer instinct. Such things were a large reason why most of us came to love books.

Ted Burkes last blog post..Why are Republicans So Mean?

]]> By: Patrick Gillespie http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Patrick Gillespie Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:08:28 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-626 There's nothing that people can't and won't debate. This seems like an utter non-issue but, like all things, it matters to somebody at some theoretical level. I personally couldn't care less what the medium is. If the literature is truly remarkable, then I'll want a hard copy - but that's just because I like books.... They're cordless. Patrick Gillespies last blog post..<a href="http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/the-road-not-taken/" rel="nofollow">Robert Frost, Iambic Tetrameter & The Road Not Taken</a> There’s nothing that people can’t and won’t debate.

This seems like an utter non-issue but, like all things, it matters to somebody at some theoretical level. I personally couldn’t care less what the medium is. If the literature is truly remarkable, then I’ll want a hard copy – but that’s just because I like books….

They’re cordless.

Patrick Gillespies last blog post..Robert Frost, Iambic Tetrameter & The Road Not Taken

]]> By: Ted Burke http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/literature-read-online/02/06/2009/comment-page-1/#comment-630 Ted Burke Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:08:32 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=435#comment-630 Not nearly as high; the attrition of the print material from memory is due more to the sheer volume of books I've read during my fift six years. Getting older takes a toll. The point, though, is that what I've read with books, those intimate, portable, bendable, malleable objects that contain our language, has become integrated over time--the content and ideas have been better assimilated than from the materials I read on line. It might be a generational difference, I'll concede, but I think it's a safe guess that people won't be reading from computer monitors, cell phones, lap tops or net books; they'll prefer something cozier, like Amazon's Kindle device for the book downloads they sell--it seems a device that invites the interaction between reader and the page that are the biggest allure of books over on line reading. :) Ted Burkes last blog post..<a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-are-republicans-so-mean.html" rel="nofollow">Why are Republicans So Mean?</a> Not nearly as high; the attrition of the print material from memory is due more to the sheer volume of books I’ve read during my fift six years. Getting older takes a toll. The point, though, is that what I’ve read with books, those intimate, portable, bendable, malleable objects that contain our language, has become integrated over time–the content and ideas have been better assimilated than from the materials I read on line. It might be a generational difference, I’ll concede, but I think it’s a safe guess that people won’t be reading from computer monitors, cell phones, lap tops or net books; they’ll prefer something cozier, like Amazon’s Kindle device for the book downloads they sell–it seems a device that invites the interaction between reader and the page that are the biggest allure of books over on line reading. :)

Ted Burkes last blog post..Why are Republicans So Mean?

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