What was William Gass’ In Defense Of The Book main idea?

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What was William Gass’ In Defense Of The Book main idea?

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An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (12 minutes after post)

The whole thing is a treatise against Luddites. It uses as its main thrust the wastefulness of books, with their limited space, information storage capacity and inefficiency of materials used. Basically the author is ranting against publishing companies refusing to embrace e-text as seen on smartphones, ebook readers and the like.

Honest.

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An Unknown Location | 3 weeks, 1 day ago (1 week, 1 day after post)

Nn451291 is just joking. The main idea of the essay is that books remind people of the lessons of the past because books themselves are often old, and that e-text is disconnected from the past. The essay centers around the famous W. C. Fields quotation “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

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