06-19-2012, 11:45 PM
In case you don't already know, I like books. A lot. I would love books, but the paper cuts sting like a bitch and it makes the pages all smeared and sticky. I have tried the e-reader in my phone and thanks to certain....connections....I have about ten thousand popular books on file for reading enjoyment.
But fuck E-readers. They can't replace real, honest-to-god bound leather and wood pulp. You know what they can't do? They can't do this:
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This is a book of laws written in Welsh circa mid 14th century. Full manuscript and one of about 80 pieces of actual Welsh writing In. The. Fucking. World.
Sotheby's has it at auction, and the expected price is gonna be 500,000 to 700,000 pounds.
My birthday is coming up. Just throwing that out there.
The last time a bit of Welsh writing even close to this came up for auction was nearly a hundred years ago. It is expected this will be the last time something in Welsh comes up. Ever.
No E-Reader or computerized book will EVER fetch 700k at auction, even if it shot directly out of Bill Gates' ass and bounced off Steve Jobs' head on the way to the floor.
I have invented a new word for how badly I want this book, since no existing words quite cover it. I have a biblioner for this book.
It throbs.
But fuck E-readers. They can't replace real, honest-to-god bound leather and wood pulp. You know what they can't do? They can't do this:
This is a book of laws written in Welsh circa mid 14th century. Full manuscript and one of about 80 pieces of actual Welsh writing In. The. Fucking. World.
Sotheby's has it at auction, and the expected price is gonna be 500,000 to 700,000 pounds.
My birthday is coming up. Just throwing that out there.
The last time a bit of Welsh writing even close to this came up for auction was nearly a hundred years ago. It is expected this will be the last time something in Welsh comes up. Ever.
No E-Reader or computerized book will EVER fetch 700k at auction, even if it shot directly out of Bill Gates' ass and bounced off Steve Jobs' head on the way to the floor.
I have invented a new word for how badly I want this book, since no existing words quite cover it. I have a biblioner for this book.
It throbs.