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What worries [me] is that a load of shit has been talked about digitization as being the new Gutenberg, but that fact is that the Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitization is taking books off shelves. If you start taking books off shelves, then you are only going to find...
Jeanette Winterson, expressing her dismay at the 25th-anniversary celebration in Edinburgh of the publication of her novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit that her childhood library’s DVD collection is growing at the expense of its book collection, “New Libraries Will Deny Children Access to Classics, Fears Winterson,” Glasgow (Scotland) Herald, August 17, 2010.
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