From the web site of Microcosm Publishing book and zine store in Portland, OR:
Do you love print? Do you still read books? Did you get a Kindle for Christmas? Do you want to trade in your soulless faux-literary technology for its worth in good old fashioned books? Well, friends, Microcosm Publishing’s got your back! Beginning RIGHT NOW you can bring in your Christmas Kindle to the Microcosm store in Portland (636 SE 11th) and trade it in for its worth in new or used books and zines! That’s right! Why let fad technology kill print when you can take a stand and fill up your shelves in the process.
On Amazon’s Kindle page you’ll be able to read glowing endorsements like the following, “”My first impression of Kindle’s screen was: ‘That’s a screen?! It doesn’t look like a screen.’… It looks like a book page, only perfect. No grain or pulp.”—Jeremy.”
Well, you know what, Jeremy? We love the and grain and pulp. Long live the grain and pulp! Long live the PAGE.
[By the way -
Since opening doors in August 2008, the Microcosm zine and book store has moved twice to larger locations. In an age when out-of-touch doomsayers are hoping to drive the final nail in the print media coffin, Microcosm continues to prove that people still buy books and zines and that running a DIY bookstore (and publishing books) in this day and age isn't a damned proposition.
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February 4, 2011 at 8:36 am
splendid
I am totally stealing this cartoon, thank so much, hubby asked me if i wanted a nook for Valentine’s day; mostly tongue in cheek, i replied only if you want a divorce….
February 4, 2011 at 8:59 am
lazarusdodge
Spread the word!
- J.
February 4, 2011 at 10:13 am
Liliana
Jeff,
I couldn’t agree more.
You are speaking my language – the language of printed books.
Best to you!
February 5, 2011 at 7:18 am
lazarusdodge
I don’t believe books should be reduced to a gray plastic container running on batteries. The finished book is a consideration of everything that the author has brought forward – it’s a creation of his or her imagination as well as everyone else involved in putting it together. That’s the way I see them – and that’s the way I read them.
Resist and read on!
- J.
February 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Steph
This is my new favorite page…except for a REAL PAGE.
February 15, 2011 at 9:46 pm
lazarusdodge
Support The Page!
- J.
February 13, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Bryony
This is cool! I have never been so unfortunate as to receive a Kindle as a present, but if I DID, this would be what I would do with it.
February 15, 2011 at 9:48 pm
lazarusdodge
Books only are allowed in this house…I’d rather turn a page than drag across a touch screen…but that’s just me..
- J.