Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The remains of the book - 0 views
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The sense of self-containment is what makes a good book so satisfying to its readers, and the requirement of self-containment is what spurs the writer to the highest levels of literary achievement.
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The web is an assembly not of things but of shards, of snippets, of bits and pieces.
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To move the words of a book onto the screen of a networked computer is to engineer a collision between two contradictory technological, and aesthetic, forces. Something's got to give. Either the web gains edges, or the book loses them.
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