{"id":3335,"date":"2011-03-21T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:48:40","slug":"printgasm-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/printgasm-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Printgasm BINGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I totally don\u2019t blame Scalzi for being <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2011\/03\/20\/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sick of the arguments for self\/digital publishing<\/a>. I self\/digital publish and I\u2019m sick of the evangelizing, too. (Because most of the arguments are just shitty logic.)<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another side of the Electronic Publishing BINGO card: Printgasm BINGO, for those who believe that reading ebooks is just one step away from civilization sliding back into the primordial ooze.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16101 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110321_bingocard-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cPrintgasm\u201d BINGO card. Text: \u201cB1: I can dog-ear the pages. B2 [in various colors]: I can highlight passages in books in color. B3: I can write margin notes in a book. B4: I can put a Post-It note in a book. B5: I can use pretty bookmarks. I1: I like the feel of a book. I2: I like the smell of a book. I3: Books are prettier than electronic files. I4: I can show off the cover to strangers. I5: I can look at books on shelves. N1: I can read books in the bookstore while I drink my coffee. N2: You\u2019ll pry my print books from my cold, dead hands! N3: I\u2019ve never read an ebook, but I hate them. Nya nya nya. HATE! N4: I like to see the books in my TBR stack. N5: I don\u2019t need a machine to read books. G1: Books keep printers employed. G2: I can buy books used. G3: I can re-sell my books. G4: I can lend a book. G5: Books don\u2019t have DRM. O1: I can burn a book for emergency fuel. O2: I can take a book to the beach. O3: I can use pages for emergency toilet paper. O4: I can read a book in the bathtub. O5: Books won\u2019t break if dropped or sat on.\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110321_bingocard-scaled.jpg 2133w, https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110321_bingocard-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110321_bingocard-1707x2048.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I totally don\u2019t blame Scalzi for being sick of the arguments for self\/digital publishing. I self\/digital publish and I\u2019m sick of the evangelizing, too. (Because most of the arguments are just shitty logic.) HOWEVER. There\u2019s another side of the Electronic Publishing BINGO card: Printgasm BINGO, for those who believe that reading ebooks is just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[583,530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-books","category-self-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16682,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/16682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}