Video: The New Zealand Book Council gets it!

[nebroadwe]

This is what happens when you read, too, right?

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[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

KEWL!!!

I kept thinking "Oh gods I hope they're not cutting up a real book!"

[ishte.livejournal.com]

*snort* I kept thinking "This would be cooler if this guy mumbled less and had less strange effect on his voice so I could understand what he was saying."

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

All I hear is the lovely New Zealand accent ... :-)

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

The accent was pleasing to my ears, yes...however it would have been nice to hear every word he said without all the weird jumbling.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

De gustibus ... and it's entirely likely I was too enthralled by the visuals to pay much attention to the words. Ooh, shiny.

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

I was a bit annoyed with the mumbling and sudden sound effects...for crying out loud I can hear a mouse scurrying in a warehouse, but this had just a bit too many sounds to unscramble!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking "Oh gods I hope they're not cutting up a real book!"

Heh. Terry Belanger, former head of the Rare Book School at UVA, was occasionally known for bringing an old book to class, taking it apart to show its structure, and then ripping it to shreds and tossing it out while his students (book people all) gasped in horror. His tagline: "Bibliography is not for the weak."

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

I would have screamed in horror and quite possibly become physical about things!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, myself, what this demonstration is meant to prove (except that not all old books are equal. It has made me slightly more sanguine about the books that crumble away in my hands of their own volition. Honestly, I hardly touched them ...)