http://www.tommiemedia.com/news/trading-page-turns-for-button-pushes-library-rents-kindles/ Campus, local and world news reported daily by University of St. Thomas students Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:14:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.tommiemedia.com/news/trading-page-turns-for-button-pushes-library-rents-kindles/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 Brad Piepkorn Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:13:41 +0000 http://www.tommiemedia.com/?p=5730#comment-1635 Not so special is the fact that an estimated 10 million trees are cut down each day for paper. Go kindle. Not so special is the fact that an estimated 10 million trees are cut down each day for paper. Go kindle.

]]> http://www.tommiemedia.com/news/trading-page-turns-for-button-pushes-library-rents-kindles/comment-page-1/#comment-1605 Michael Blissenbach Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:19:00 +0000 http://www.tommiemedia.com/?p=5730#comment-1605 I am very, very disappointed in my alma mater. Instead of encouraging students to cuddle up with a book in the stacks and exercise their imaginations and broaden their horizons by consulting the seasoned volumes that occupy the shelves of its libraries, St. Thomas bas chosen to purchase glorified minicomputers that are far inferior to books and, like all electronics, are fragile and will be rendered obsolete after five years. I have no problem with online research databases, but books have always and will always occupy a special place in my heart, and looking at books on the computer screen will never be the same as curling up on a couch or bed reading a novel that gives insights to the human condition that nothing else can. There's more to the experience of reading than just reading text on a screen. There's the feel of the cover, the smell of the musty pages, the joy of turning the pages, the whole experience of reading that no technology can ever replicate. To quote a Styx song "The problem's plain to see: too much technology. Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanize". Truer words were never spoken. I am very, very disappointed in my alma mater. Instead of encouraging students to cuddle up with a book in the stacks and exercise their imaginations and broaden their horizons by consulting the seasoned volumes that occupy the shelves of its libraries, St. Thomas bas chosen to purchase glorified minicomputers that are far inferior to books and, like all electronics, are fragile and will be rendered obsolete after five years.
I have no problem with online research databases, but books have always and will always occupy a special place in my heart, and looking at books on the computer screen will never be the same as curling up on a couch or bed reading a novel that gives insights to the human condition that nothing else can. There’s more to the experience of reading than just reading text on a screen. There’s the feel of the cover, the smell of the musty pages, the joy of turning the pages, the whole experience of reading that no technology can ever replicate. To quote a Styx song “The problem’s plain to see: too much technology. Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanize”. Truer words were never spoken.

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