{"id":363,"date":"2008-11-09T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/itunes-and-netflix-are-like-books\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:44:42","slug":"itunes-and-netflix-are-like-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/itunes-and-netflix-are-like-books\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes and Netflix are like books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tuesday&#8217;s publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374531552?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0374531552\" target=\"_blank\">2666<\/a> nears,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2008\/11\/size_matters_or_i_like_big_boo.html\">New York Magazine<\/a>\u00a0has a piece about the continued importance of big, Pynchonian books, comparing their flexibility to that of current digital media. Yes, it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch, but still\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It bears remembering that a book, no matter how long and complicated, doesn&#8217;t require you to read it all in one go, nor does it force you to watch commercials. In this respect, other media are becoming more booklike, not the other way around. TiVo, Netflix, and iTunes enable you to consume what you want, when you want it, in or out of sequence. Take a break if you like \u2014 but only if you like. Watch a whole season of Lost in a weekend \u2014 or every morning on the subway. A longer, more intense experience \u2014 whether it&#8217;s a ten-show Mad Men block or a 100-song iPod playlist \u2014 at least gives you the option to stretch. And nothing does it better than a big, multifaceted novel. Take a year to read it, or one stormy weekend (well, several \u2014 we&#8217;re hoping for a long, cold winter).<\/p>\n<p>Or just adapt your existing habits and read it every Sunday evening for an hour: Mad Men&#8217;s over and Entourage sucks, anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tuesday&#8217;s publication of 2666 nears,\u00a0New York Magazine\u00a0has a piece about the continued importance of big, Pynchonian books, comparing their flexibility to that of current digital media. Yes, it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch, but still\u2026 It bears remembering that a book, no matter how long and complicated, doesn&#8217;t require you to read it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}