In case you couldn’t tell by the plot of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury thinks books are very, very important. Well, books made out of paper, anyway. The dystopian novel, which has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, wasn’t made available as an e-book until November, 2011. For a man who writes so well about the future, Bradbury is a hopeless Luddite, once telling the New York Times in 2009, “Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.'”
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