I live in Russia. And I agree with these thoughts. But there is another side to it. At least for the moment, I can find electronic copies of books in English that, in our situation now, are simply not being translated and published. There are great difficulties in this search too, but this is different from the situation in the Soviet Union and the difficulties of samizdat. Although I still admire people who wrote 300-400 pages of an otherwise inaccessible book by hand in a few nights. I hope it will not come to that.
Totally agree Anna. When I was living in Moscow eBooks were something God-given. I could read English language books physical copies of which I couldn't get in the bookshops of the city. The situation reversed for me when I moved to London. Today my Kindle is full of Russian language books that I cannot get here. Technology in its essence is neutral, it's neither good or bad, it depends on how we use it. :))
Between your own article on ebook censorship and the footnotes you have graciously included, there is a lot here to meditate about, re-read, and digest. A thousand Thank You’s.
I live in Russia. And I agree with these thoughts. But there is another side to it. At least for the moment, I can find electronic copies of books in English that, in our situation now, are simply not being translated and published. There are great difficulties in this search too, but this is different from the situation in the Soviet Union and the difficulties of samizdat. Although I still admire people who wrote 300-400 pages of an otherwise inaccessible book by hand in a few nights. I hope it will not come to that.
Totally agree Anna. When I was living in Moscow eBooks were something God-given. I could read English language books physical copies of which I couldn't get in the bookshops of the city. The situation reversed for me when I moved to London. Today my Kindle is full of Russian language books that I cannot get here. Technology in its essence is neutral, it's neither good or bad, it depends on how we use it. :))
Vashik,
Between your own article on ebook censorship and the footnotes you have graciously included, there is a lot here to meditate about, re-read, and digest. A thousand Thank You’s.
Thank you so much for reading John! :)