>>25460093what the fuck is a "dimension overtruncation is a form of procrustacean-bed reduction"
I do, and that is why I disregard anything this Arab scammer says.
>>25460093Yeah, I'm a poorfag so having a ereader saved me a lot of money long term
>>25460103Imbecile
>>25460113Stay mad, Arab.
>>25460103Free Palestine
>>25460093Not really. I have a kindle and have used it, but I don't think I've ever actually read an entire book on it. I decided a couple days ago that when I finish my current book, the next one I read is going to be on my kindle, just so I can finally get the full experience of it and judge it properly.I'm sympathetic to OP's pic, but behind all the pompous language he's really just saying "there's more to a book than the words," and never makes a case for why all these properties exclusive to physical books are important other than his personal feelings and habits. It's a booktok girl saying "idk i just like the way a book smells" in professor-speak.
>procrustean-bed
I don't read ebooks I AM EBOOKS
this makes me really glad that i listened to nassim's "the black swan" as an audiobook. i have his "antifragile" as an ebook too. specifically on audible and kindle. now isn't that funny, nassim?
I didn't know he had a substack
>>25460361this is the least surprising person in the world to have a substack after curtis yarvin personally
>>25460093BEHOLD! THE PHONECIAN KING OF ACADEMIC BOOMERISM. WHEN HE GLANCES AT A BOOK IT IS LIKE READING IT EH WALLAH
Thanks for casually spoiling Les Miserables for everyone, Taleb
>>25460093Taleb is such a hylic it's insane.
he is exactly as insufferable in all of his writing. it's frankly a bit impressive.
>>25460365>"A Lebanese Technology Transfer">ctrl+f "arab">0 resultsKEK never change Taleb
isn't all of this a bit>mootby him writing it on a fucking substack?
>>25460093He's not wrong, there are studies that people reading a physical book remember it more vividly. Anyone who's had to flip through a thick math textbook will tell you it's a lot better flipping through it than scrolling a PDF.On the other hand, it's just a losing argument against the ease of access. You could make the same argument of film vs VHS, DVD, Blu etc....no, nothing will equal the Dolby theatre, but no one is going to junk their TVs anytime soon. It's just the medium of the masses. I value my Kobo even though I don't really disagree with anything he said.
>>25460093>>25460099He doesn't explain his argument. >This is the classical Procrustean bed type reduction in dimensionality.>You think you are reading abstract content but we are not abstract beings and the physical book recruits more channels than you can intellectually perceive.That's all we get, just "books anchor you to time and place" using about 30 words for every 1 I used.
>>25460093>I won't make a Proustian madeleine tirade here about the potency of the olfactory dimensionAnyone that expresses themselves like this is a midwit trying too hard to sound smart.
>>25460578>He's not wrong, there are studies that show people reading a physical book remember it more vividly.Is that your experience? I can relate to that while reading on a smartphone or desktop, an e-reader though is a different feeling. I remember what I read more or less vividly depending on my interest level, which is how it's always worked with books. Visually the e-reader displays the same print you'd see in the book. While it doesn't have the same sensory feedback, smell being absent as well as the sound of pages leafing, it has its own tactile experience which is both similar to a book and worse and better in ways. You still turn the page, which due to the single-page display feels both like turning the pages of a book and unfurling a scroll. You can still dog-ear the pages, highlight words and passages, in some cases write on the page. It goes further in letting you physically interact with the words to obtain a dictionary definition. The particular shape, design, weight, texture, UI, &etc. of a Kobo all serve as physical anchors to the experience. Using a small one will form memories if you switch to a big one or vice versa. When the product changes in time, people will have nostalgia for these devices. If the argument is that books are invaluable for archival purposes, and are precious to have, I agree, to me that's taken for granted and besides the point. E-readers are amazing for reading (especially if you use a free internet library).
>>25460808It makes sense that a book's attributes (size, colour, binding, typesetting, etc.) would serve as a kind of sensory mnemonic to make it more easy to remember the contents of... when the mnemonic is invoked.Like, if you read a book while listening to an album on repeat, it would be easy to remember that book when listening to the album again. Or when holding the book itself, it should be easier to remember its contents than it would be by merely bringing up the .pdf on your reader. I could also buy that if you read a book in a given physical context (e.g., at school), then the connection between the book's sensory mnemonic and the school as a context que would make it easier to remember its contents at the school. Whereas, your reader that you use to read books everywhere would not invoke that same context connection.But not sure how much I believe that it is easier to remember the contents of physical books just arbitrarily any given time.
>>25460998>Whereas, your reader that you use to read books everywhere would not invoke that same context connection.That's right, the dimensions of the reader don't change from book to book, however the dimensions of the text do. Aside from the binding, all the parts of the book are still there like the front matter, maintaining the text's existence as an object within the reader. Contextual connections exist everywhere as they are external. I remember 2021 when I started reading a lot again, the position I would be in in bed, that night I was home alone staying up reading The Third Reich by Bolano, reading a collection of Robert Aickman on my tiny reader before I got a new one, standing around reading Suttree last year at a job I won't return to. Time and place still work the same way, but it's my connection to the text that creates these contextual anchors to my environment. And the text itself remains intact, it's just in the device.
