Gutenberg

I don't understand people who want "beautiful books". I just can't accept that some people would spend hundreds of dollars on something with a sexy cover when they can get the exact same words for a vanishingly small fraction of the price. A book's physical shape is utilitarian. It is meant to hold a mass of pages together. There is nothing mystical or especially beautiful about it (unless you consider everything that serves its purpose especially beautiful, such as drywall, desks, pens, etc.) Of course (this is obviously a trite observation), the real appealing stuff of books is what is in the words, and what you take away in your own little streamlined, functional skull.

What disgusts me is the wastefulness of leather-bound encyclopedia sets that have never been touched. I'm a child of the internet. If there is a body of knowledge that takes too much space to store, put it online! Use the empty shelf space for something more useful, like the ashes of your ancestors.

Quotage: "hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."