Iconic author Ray Bradbury, who reached literary immortality with ‘Fahrenheit 451′ along with ‘Dandelion Wine’ and ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes,’ isn’t a fan of technology.

He thinks we have “too many machines,” and that “We have to get rid of those machines.”

So it should come as no surprise, the fury it caused with Bradbury when he was given several offers to make his literary classics available on the Kindle and other eReader devices.

Bradbury wrote darkly about bookburning in “Fahrenheit 451,” but he sounds ready to use a Kindle for kindling. “I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books” on an electronic reading device, he said. “I said to Yahoo, ‘Prick up your ears and go to hell.’ “

Bradbury, who is 90-years 0ld, isn’t a total loon.  I think there are people, old and young alike, who agree that we have too many machines and devices currently in our lives.  But Bradbury shouldn’t fool himself to think, that as soon as he passes, that his heirs won’t sell out to eReaders before the last shovel of dirt is thrown.

[Nikki Nelson/ WENN]