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owlfish at 10:20am on 04/06/2010 under science fiction
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oursin and nwhyte: Authors read from the Periodic Table of 75 Years of Fabulous Writers (PDF):
( List... )
Thoughts: I'm never as well-read as I wish I were. The advantage of this is that there is always more to read.
Some of the people I mark as not-having-heard-of could be people I have read short stories by. Or essays. Or blog posts under aliases I do not map onto one of these names. Or even novels. Just because I have forgotten the authors of long-since read books says nothing about quality.
In some cases, the author is best known for fiction, and I have only read blog posts by them. Sometimes, copious numbers of blog posts. It is still reading what they have written, after all, often in greater quantity than, say, reasoning a short story or poem. Or, in some cases, greater quantity than reading a novel.
It's strange to have all this fairly reliably-available text online which I cannot claim to own in any sense, even if it's even more convenient for me to access than, say, books I own, but which are currently located in another country. This listing project is clearly biased towards print. If I pay for an ebook, I own it, but do I still own it if I download it as a freebie? What about a webpage? Is it more mine by being saved to my harddrive than if I do not? Does bookmarking constitute a minor toehold of possession in any relevant sense?
oursin and nwhyte: Authors read from the Periodic Table of 75 Years of Fabulous Writers (PDF):( List... )
Thoughts: I'm never as well-read as I wish I were. The advantage of this is that there is always more to read.
Some of the people I mark as not-having-heard-of could be people I have read short stories by. Or essays. Or blog posts under aliases I do not map onto one of these names. Or even novels. Just because I have forgotten the authors of long-since read books says nothing about quality.
In some cases, the author is best known for fiction, and I have only read blog posts by them. Sometimes, copious numbers of blog posts. It is still reading what they have written, after all, often in greater quantity than, say, reasoning a short story or poem. Or, in some cases, greater quantity than reading a novel.
It's strange to have all this fairly reliably-available text online which I cannot claim to own in any sense, even if it's even more convenient for me to access than, say, books I own, but which are currently located in another country. This listing project is clearly biased towards print. If I pay for an ebook, I own it, but do I still own it if I download it as a freebie? What about a webpage? Is it more mine by being saved to my harddrive than if I do not? Does bookmarking constitute a minor toehold of possession in any relevant sense?
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