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Comment on A MANDA FAVOURITE – SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAY by Logan

Logan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:26:13 +0000

If God was a rabbit, then I could not make rabbit stew! I would be sad.

Comment on SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAY! by Susan Scanlon

Susan Scanlon — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:34:56 +0000

Who doesn’t love Ian Rankin??? In all his prolific glory.

Comment on Wimpy Kid 6 Announced! by caleb petrowicz

caleb petrowicz — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:33:49 +0000

Diary of a wimpy kid 6 is going to be very exciting for us i bet especialy since jeff kinney told that he was going to write two more books and than hell thank about the rest in which we all know is that hell be writing the last two books diary of a wimpy kid 6 comes out november 1st 2011 and diary of a wimpy kid 7 which will come out fall of 2012.

Comment on New site: Read Your Music [Manda Digital Media Network] by Martin Melhuish

Martin Melhuish — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:28:10 +0000

Looks like a worthy undertaking. Wish you all the best with this.
Martin

Comment on Essex County is a Canada Reads Finalist! by tom

tom — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:52:41 +0000

Very progressive of the CBC.

Comment on Authors on E-Books at IFOA by Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:12:30 +0000

All those things Michael Helm mentioned were great concepts/inventions, but they’ve been redesigned and updated over the years out of practicality. Now it’s the book’s turn…

It’s interesting that the older people are so receptive to the idea. They’re most concerned with content and availability. The young ones who all claim to love the ‘feel’ of it seem so pretentious… they love people seeing what they read.

Comment on Authors on E-Books at IFOA by Josh

Josh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:58:59 +0000

I just think if you really love a book, you need to own it in its physical form. You share (in the traditional sense) with friends, pass it on to your kids, inscribe it for your wife. Whatever! My favourite read of the past ten years, Barney’s Version, was loaned to me before a trip. I’ll never forget the person who loaned it to me, or carrying it around on my trip. Could I have had the same experience with an iPad?

Plus, literature survived thousands of years as a written document…you can burn thousands of books, but somewhere the written word will remain on a page. So I worry as a ePub file on a hard drive, it’s simply too easy to delete…

Then again, the ancient Greeks, most notably Socrates, often argued against the written word. They said it would increase forgetfulness, since you could just write something down and not have to remember it. Let that be a lesson to all those who put down new ways of spreading the “word.”