tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post8613906134706205452..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Damaged in transitD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-75886361791838329672010-08-30T08:04:56.940-04:002010-08-30T08:04:56.940-04:00Sorry to hear of your book trauma. I can relate (...Sorry to hear of your book trauma. I can relate (but I won't bore you with the details).<br /><br />The important things in life are all intangible. Perhaps this experience, however distasteful and unpleasant, shows us all not to get too attached to the things that will one day be gone...<br /><br />May the Lord make His Face shine on you...setnaffahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10993173717353847154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-5632642840526799772010-08-27T10:08:45.945-04:002010-08-27T10:08:45.945-04:00There is, is there not, an opportunity to reflect ...There is, is there not, an opportunity to reflect upon the impermanence of objects versus the enduring value of other matters (without intending a play on the word "matter"). <br /><br />To state the issue in a different way, how does the physical object (even when damaged) alter the emotional and aesthetic value of your experience with all that the object represented?<br /><br />Although I cannot put my finger on them now, I seem to recall some comments in Ecclesiastes that speak to the value of the spiritual and emotional rather than the temporality of physical objects and existence.<br /><br />None of this, of course, diminishes your sorrow (if that is the correct word), and do not doubt that I share your pain (being someone who also irrationally loves books, especially in their physical form), but I restate my argument that this is an important moment.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-47328300305525729122010-08-26T21:52:41.849-04:002010-08-26T21:52:41.849-04:00What about Francine Prose's Reading Like a Wri...What about Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer? I bet you want to read that book more than once on the Kindle, no?A. J.http://amemorytheater.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-66753867008173685352010-08-26T20:35:35.230-04:002010-08-26T20:35:35.230-04:00Adlai,
I have blogged about the Kindle. Here, for...Adlai,<br /><br />I have blogged about the Kindle. <a href="http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-kindle-wont-replace-codex.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a>, for example, I argued why it will not replace the “print-and-binding” book. <a href="http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2010/06/spatial-form-and-electronic-texts.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> I complained about its clumsiness in comparison to a printed volume.<br /><br />The Kindle is good for straight-through, linear reading, of books you will never want to reread.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-43411402874433066492010-08-26T19:27:17.794-04:002010-08-26T19:27:17.794-04:00Are you saying that if you had all your books on K...Are you saying that if you had all your books on Kindle, that things would have been much, much less traumatic?<br /><br />How is your Kindle experience, by the way? You haven't blogged about it much. <br /><br />Also, will you treat us to a picture of your new library?A.J.http://amemorytheater.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-36253649753671765522010-08-26T18:38:58.091-04:002010-08-26T18:38:58.091-04:00oooh that's too bad. Next time you will know ...oooh that's too bad. Next time you will know to pack your own books. I always figured if I needed to ship my books, I would pack them myself, shrink wrap on a pallet and have them shipped separately by a freight company. My busdiness experience is that palleted goods generally make a safe trip.<br />I moved hundreds of books into a barn while I was cleaning house, when I went back to check them, raccoons - they left enough dusty pawprints to identify the culprits - had pulled some of the lids off. Bats lived in the rafters and pooped on the opened boxes. Then there was some rain damage during a bad storm. Fortunately, that was only the top layer of stacked boxes.panavia999https://www.blogger.com/profile/12022750065016664499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-52177895054990434622010-08-26T14:09:57.448-04:002010-08-26T14:09:57.448-04:00Oh, I'm so sorry. I know that feeling: for the...Oh, I'm so sorry. I know that feeling: for the past nine months, we've had all our books in the basement as we have been showing our unit in hopes of selling it, and we lost a handful of books recently to a small flood. It could have been much worse, and nothing we lost was even close to irreplaceable, but the sight of a ruined book is depressing nonetheless. <br /><br />Hopefully this feeling will fade as you settle in and have the rest of your library properly shelved around you.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.com