Thoroughly enjoyable discussion from all the panel members and wonderful, as always, to hear Alan Bennett. It was Alan Bennett who was responsible for leading me to the LRB; I am very glad for it. As a comparatively new reader of the LRB (about two years), I always wondered why the pieces mention so little about the books under review; but I have always been thankful for it and often the thought has crossed my mind that, if it were different, I would almost certainly not read it. I want to read about the subject and not too much about the book. It was gratifying to hear from the panel that that was, indeed, the idea. Interesting that the point was made that many considered the paper to have moved to the left. To my eye it sits quite clearly on the left and that, and the superb writing, are the best arguments I can think of for reading it. If it has moved, I sincerely hope there's no possibility of it moving back! On the question of a digital option, I, for one, like the professors in Shanghai, must have the print edition. I cannot read and absorb from a computer screen and, whether for work or pleasure, have to print anything online that I wish to read; at 67 I continue to hope that I shall never see a 100% digital age. The one blot on the landscape is, however, that I yearn for a smaller folio so I could read the paper in bed or in a comfy chair without my arms aching! As it is I can only read it with the paper spread before me on a table, preferably in a good coffee shop! Thank you for a really interesting video and thank you for the exceptional London Review of Books. The Incomplete History is on my Christmas list.
Excellent. I mostly get to read my paper edition on the train. I live in Italy. If I happen to finish an edition whilst on the train, I lock it up tightly into the little pull down table attached to the back of the seat in front. That way the cleaners won't get it and it'll make a nice surprise for some other passenger who pulls the table down, hopefully a future reader per chance subscriber. All for the cause!!
Thoroughly enjoyable discussion from all the panel members and wonderful, as always, to hear Alan Bennett. It was Alan Bennett who was responsible for leading me to the LRB; I am very glad for it.
As a comparatively new reader of the LRB (about two years), I always wondered why the pieces mention so little about the books under review; but I have always been thankful for it and often the thought has crossed my mind that, if it were different, I would almost certainly not read it. I want to read about the subject and not too much about the book. It was gratifying to hear from the panel that that was, indeed, the idea.
Interesting that the point was made that many considered the paper to have moved to the left. To my eye it sits quite clearly on the left and that, and the superb writing, are the best arguments I can think of for reading it. If it has moved, I sincerely hope there's no possibility of it moving back!
On the question of a digital option, I, for one, like the professors in Shanghai, must have the print edition. I cannot read and absorb from a computer screen and, whether for work or pleasure, have to print anything online that I wish to read; at 67 I continue to hope that I shall never see a 100% digital age. The one blot on the landscape is, however, that I yearn for a smaller folio so I could read the paper in bed or in a comfy chair without my arms aching! As it is I can only read it with the paper spread before me on a table, preferably in a good coffee shop! Thank you for a really interesting video and thank you for the exceptional London Review of Books. The Incomplete History is on my Christmas list.
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Excellent.
I mostly get to read my paper edition on the train.
I live in Italy. If I happen to finish an edition whilst on the train,
I lock it up tightly into the little pull down table attached to the back of the seat in front.
That way the cleaners won't get it and it'll make a nice surprise for
some other passenger who pulls the table down, hopefully a future reader per chance subscriber.
All for the cause!!
noice!
This is so...Lovely! Cake?
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