04 November, 2009 00:24
"People shouldn't have
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"People shouldn't have to be encouraged by freshwater pearl frothy beverages to hang out in a library," she says.
Asher Chase, 16, a junior, says anyone who thinks digital books are the future should read a digital book. He remembers his English class last year being assigned Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on their laptops.
Taking notes on inflatable castles the text? Forget it. "It was terrible: 'Shade, file, edit, highlight.' We were like, 'Wow, reading books on computers is awful.' "
Then there are the giant TVs on the wall greeting library patrons as they enter — tuned that afternoon to a C-SPAN congressional hearing, a big-think TED conference session and some sort of NASA feed from space — all with the sound turned down. Skok simply can't believe that Tracy has let flickering TV monitors, à la George Orwell's 1984, invade the library.
"Dr. Tracy, I love him, I respect him," she says. "But has he read a freshwater pearl necklace dystopian novel?"
Asher Chase, 16, a junior, says anyone who thinks digital books are the future should read a digital book. He remembers his English class last year being assigned Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on their laptops.
Taking notes on inflatable castles the text? Forget it. "It was terrible: 'Shade, file, edit, highlight.' We were like, 'Wow, reading books on computers is awful.' "
Then there are the giant TVs on the wall greeting library patrons as they enter — tuned that afternoon to a C-SPAN congressional hearing, a big-think TED conference session and some sort of NASA feed from space — all with the sound turned down. Skok simply can't believe that Tracy has let flickering TV monitors, à la George Orwell's 1984, invade the library.
"Dr. Tracy, I love him, I respect him," she says. "But has he read a freshwater pearl necklace dystopian novel?"
