{"id":2628,"date":"2012-02-16T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2012-02-16T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T10:22:04","slug":"e-books-cant-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"e-books can\u2019t burn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;The literary experience does not lie in any one moment of perception, or any physical contact with a material object (even less in the \u201cpossession\u201d of handsome masterpieces lined up on our bookshelves), but in the movement of the mind through a sequence of words from beginning to end. More than any other art form it is pure mental material, as close as one can get to thought itself. Memorized, a poem is as surely a piece of literature in our minds as it is on the page. If we say the words in sequence, even silently without opening our mouths, then we have had a literary experience\u2014perhaps even a more intense one than a reading from the page. It\u2019s true that our owning the object\u2014War and Peace or Moby Dick\u2014and organizing these and other classics according to chronology and nation of origin will give us an illusion of control: as if we had now \u201cacquired\u201d and \u201cdigested\u201d and \u201cplaced\u201d a piece of culture. Perhaps that is what people are attached to. But in fact we all know that once the sequence of words is over and the book closed what actually remains in our possession is very difficult, wonderfully difficult to pin down, a richness (or sometimes irritation) that has nothing to do with the heavy block of paper on our shelves.&#8220; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/feb\/15\/ebooks-cant-burn\/\">#<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>(Sch\u00f6ner Text von Tim Parks, interessant auch der Gedanke, dass e-books das Browsen weniger erm\u00f6glichen als B\u00fccher, irgendwie ja entgegen der Intuition.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;The literary experience does not lie in any one moment of perception, or any physical contact with a material object (even less in the \u201cpossession\u201d of handsome masterpieces lined up on our bookshelves), but in the movement of the mind through a sequence of words from beginning to end. More than any other art form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buecher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}