Will Self on Digital Media

[changeling67]

As I am writing for digital media next academic year, I was very interested in what Self had to say about literature and its placement in the digital age.

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh - interesting! I'm one of those MUST BE A BOOK readers... can't really get stuck into an I.T. book. I'm inclined to skip over far too much without really stopping, going back and reading again, and even again until I get it!!! Shall have to have a go at my newly re-acquired Ulysses!!

Kindle is NOT for me. I have to feel pages, and use my peg to keep my pages down so I don't break any spines.

Even my ten-pound SHakespeare has to rest on my chest while I plough through Troilus and Cressida!!! hahaha Much ado about nothing! teehee.

Looks like Will is now on my list of Must Haves!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a Kindle as yet, but I envision that I will have to as part of the course.I do use e-books in tandem with what I am doing in my assignments i.e. reading Gilbert and Gubar's 'Madwoman in the Attic' which is a Feminist view on Bronte's work, especially Jane Eyre. Sometimes it is handier to have the text on screen, though I do prefer books myself.

Self is right about Ulysses - just as well he is not expecting us to read James Joyce's letters to North Barnacle - think the e-reader would catch fire LOL :-)

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

My library To Be Saved file is steaming. But so earthy and real and fun. He must have been such FUN in bed.

Definitely a BOOK read... not a Kindle! teehee!