The Telegraph's Way With Words Festival in proving to rather lively this year - Penelope Lively that is. The author has kindled up a storm with her comments about eBooks made at this year's festival.Author Penelope Lively, 78, the Booker Prize-winning writer and St Trinians School Mistress lookalike, stated that eBooks are for “bloodless nerds”. She said that Kindles and other devices to which you can download novels are no substitute for real books and no self-respecting bibliophile should want one.
“There are two points at which I might use a Kindle", Lively said. " when travelling, though I
don’t do much of that any more, and when in hospital, which is quite likely
to arise at some point. So that could be very useful.
“But as a general way of reading books, no. It seems to me that anyone whose
library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless
nerd.”
Despite her opposition to the technology, 13 of Lively’s books are available to download from the Amazon website as a Kindle e-book, including Moon Tiger, which won the Booker Prize in 1987.
Despite her opposition to the technology, 13 of Lively’s books are available to download from the Amazon website as a Kindle e-book, including Moon Tiger, which won the Booker Prize in 1987.
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I agree with her absolutely. Ebooks may be ok when traveling but otherwise I can't stand the things. I'm still stocking up on "real" books because the time might come when the "fake" books take over.
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