The Idea That Bigger Haystacks Have More

The Opposite Of Esprit D'escalier Is The Way That Life's Embarrassments Come Back To Haunt Us Even After They're Long Past. I Could Remember Every Stupid Thing I'd Ever Said Or Done, Recall Them With Picture-perfect Clarity. Any Time I Was Feeling Low, I'd Naturally Start To Remember Other Times I Felt That Way, A Hit Parade Of Humiliations Coming One After Another To My Mind.

The Big Problem Isn’t Piracy, It’s Obscurity.

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.

The Good News (for Writers) Is That This Means That Ebooks On Computers Are More Likely To Be An Enticement To Buy The Printed Book (which Is, After All, Cheap, Easily Had, And Easy To Use) Than A Substitute For It. You Can Probably Read Just Enough Of The Book Off The Screen To Realize You Want To Be Reading It On Paper.

We Roared. We Were One Big Animal Throat, Roaring.