The Late Age of Print

Beyond the Book

Browsing Posts published in September, 2009

My blogging has fallen off seriously in the last few weeks.  This is due mainly to my finishing up an essay I’ve been working on called “The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read.”  Well, it’s done now (at least a solid draft of it), and so I’m back to posting on [...]

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I’ve been working practically nonstop for the last several weeks on the remarks for all of my upcoming speaking engagements.  Needless to say, I haven’t been as attentive to The Late Age of Print blog as I would like to be.  So, to tide you over until I can compose something substantive of my own, [...]

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From the annals of VERY BAD IDEAS comes this story in today’s Boston Globe. Cushing Academy, a prep school located in western Massachusetts, has decided to dispense with its library of printed books — more than 20,000 volumes in all — and switch over entirely to digital media resources. The change was prompted in no [...]

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