{"id":2547,"date":"2012-02-20T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:55","slug":"e-books-cant-burn-by-tim-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/20\/e-books-cant-burn-by-tim-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"E-books Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Burn by Tim Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/feb\/15\/ebooks-cant-burn\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jacqueline_Rush_Lee_book_sculpture_jpg_470x472_q85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interviewed after winning England\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on paper. In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival of printed books. Jonathan Franzen has also declared himself of the same faith. At the university where I work, certain professors, old and young, will react with disapproval at the notion that one is reading poetry on a Kindle. It is sacrilege.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/feb\/15\/ebooks-cant-burn\/\">E-books Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Burn by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Parks considers reading print in the face of reading ebooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[584,583,585,437,156],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-academics","tag-ebboks","tag-nyrb","tag-print","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10061,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/10061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}