http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_19 Only one reading going on today, at the University Book Store. Judy Norsigan, who is one of the founders of Our Bodies, Our Selves, is talking about pregnancy and childbirth. (SPOILER WARNING: There could be talk about mucous plugs.) If you're not so much into pregnancy and/or childbirth, may I suggest that you read Ross Simonini's books lead this week, which is about e-books and free literary magazines? You could literally spend all day sitting at your computer and reading free, good fiction. Here's a snippet: For all those soothsayers who looked to the music industry and portended the... Copyright 2008 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:10:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ranging from the pragmatic elements of printed literature to the emotional, I don't think that books will ever go entirely out of fashion. While I am in front of a screen for six plus hours a day, I still prefer to read the same text in print because it doesn't kill my eyes as badly. The sentimental reasoning for print literature lies in the fact that a book makes the intangible a solid, the lines that spring from the writer's mind are now sitting in the reader's hands, instead of floating in an ethereal stream of information. In a way, e-literature is like the next generation of the oral tradition, with more room to spread.

]]> Jaye http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_19#c1007568 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_19#c1007568 Books Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:14:21 -0800 That was beautifully said.

]]> Kathy Fennessy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_19#c1007582 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_19#c1007582 Books Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:10:47 -0800