What no reader device can replace ... aside from the obvious things
that Marnie suggested, is the feel and smell of paper. Of the cover.
Of turning a page. Or the little notes jotted in the margins of a
print or book by a previous owner, a sense of passage through time. A
book, like a fine photographic print, is tactile - is a part of the
living world - not just a conveyance for information storage and
display. I use computers to find, manipulate, collate, arrange,
assess, and obtain information. But I can't read a book on a display.
Whether they go the way of all things or not is not a question ... it
ain't called that for nothin' ... but it will be a different world in
which books no longer exist. Happily, I don't think I'll be around for
that world.
G
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