Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 25, 2020

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    stairsteppublishing  over 4 years ago

    Love my computer, but when it comes to reading, I prefer books, the feel of paper, being able to turn a page, and it is so much finding passages much faster.

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    h.v.greenman  over 4 years ago

    Gutenberg wasn’t the father of the printing press. He invented movable / reusable type. Making printing affordable.

    Prior to that printing was done with hand engraved / etched plates of limestone in a process called “lithography”

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    [Traveler] Premium Member over 4 years ago

    A better definition of irony than the one Steve Buscemi gave in Con Air

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    diskus Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Not sure thats really irony

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    1953Baby  over 4 years ago

    ‘nother question for my never-ending bucket list: Did the printing press go through many iterations, and then the typewriter was invented (individual keyboard)??? I mean, I can think of some machines that reprinted but didn’t have keyboards: mimeograph (remember all those purple copies?), then the copier came along, then computers, then . . .and now I’m typing on a keyboard to put letters in a little box on a virtual screen . . .absolutely amazing! Thanks, Thaves!

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    mourdac Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Anything making reading accessible to more people is good.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  over 4 years ago

    The more that I read, the less I know for shore.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Same feeling I get when I drive to Kitty Hawk, NC. It’s more appropriate to fly there.

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    comixbomix  over 4 years ago

    And, one fine day, we’ll be reading about the “father” (or mother or gender non-specific) who invented the “eBook” on whatever medium comes next…personally, I really like having a major percentage of my readable library in my hip pocket, or not carrying anything but my phone to read on while waiting for my doctor. And the search features are a big plus as well – better on an actual Kindle than on the alternate device apps. I’ve had a Kindle since 2008, and while Amazon has done a pretty lousy job generally with hardware/software, I really don’t look forward to holding paper books anymore, unless, of course, they are art or photography books.

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    sandpiper  over 4 years ago

    I guess one could call the typewriter a modification of the physical form of movable, reusable type. Certainly can’t say that for electronic media, as it is open to an inexhaustible supply of writers for whom the delete key was invented, but not used anywhere near often enough.

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    bigplayray  over 4 years ago

    I don’t believe it unless I see it in Print!

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Remember how people were so concerned that we were breeding a nation of hunchbacks with all the overloaded knapsacks full of textbooks that school kids had to tote around all day? Now we can cram the complete text of every textbook they’ll ever need from kindergarten thru HS graduation into a single portable device and improve their posture at the same time.

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    Gent  over 4 years ago

    Would it be odd to read about the inventor of an incandescent light bulb while sitting under a LED lighting?

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    Gent  over 4 years ago

    There’s a site called Project Gutenberg where you can read books online for free. It’s a library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

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