Tufte points out that newsprint and books have superior resolution compared to computer screen, e.g. Gomez described how people are getting news on their computer screen vs. P52.9 “I almost expected to see steam coming off the guy’s coal-powered jetpack” Gutenberg’s bibles…were not welcomed with open arms or eager hands….’medieval clerics greeted printed books as imposters of illuminated manuscripts – aesthetically inferior, textually unreliable and likely to breed a dangerous diversity of opinion.’ I read about the disruptive influence of the printing press in another book…? P43.6 Five hundred years ago, when books were first introduced, they were greeted with the same level of skepticism that digital reading is facing today.
So to make the argument that books are a great technology (and don’t crash and don’t lose data, etc.) is the supreme kind of silliness…books are indeed primarily the information they contain…. P23.7…even the most rudimentary electronic reading experience offers more features and overall utility than a print book does. P18.2 BOOK can be taken as an acronym standing for Box of Organized Knowledge. P13.9 “In many ways…we have already moved beyond the book….the sales of books and other printed matter, for centuries the center of cultural memory, now have fallen to fourth position behind the sales of television, cinema, and video games.”
The author drops the names of at least a hundred books spanning traditional classics to science fiction some good suggestions for what to read next. Not only about books, but about the growing pains of everything becoming digital, the book covers many different industries and points out the pros and cons of this changing marketplace. Print is Dead : Books in our Digital Age, Gomez
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