Bob W wrote:
There are more pleasures in reading than just reading.
From the article I referenced (that everyone, apparently, refuses to read):
"Books? Every one of us in this room could write an anthem to the book.
The feel of a fine binding, the smell of newly opened pages, the
satisfying heft of a book in your hands -- can anything top it? When I
get home at night, before dinner I sit with a drink in my hand in a room
full of books, each one of them an old friend who has accompanied me on
part of my life voyage. The book of poems I loved in college, the
biography that first introduced me to a great historical figure twenty
years ago, the novel that entertained me on a vacation, or maybe the one
that explained a piece of the world to me. "
"As you can see, I can get sentimental about these things we call, by
inference, the old media. They mean a lot to me, emotionally as well as
economically -- and I suspect they do to all of you, too. I believe they
are, after food, clothing and shelter, and after our family relations
and our friendships, the most important things in our lives.
"And I believe one more thing: I believe they, and all forms of print,
are dead. Finished. Over. Perhaps not in my professional lifetime, but
certainly in that of the youngest people in this room. "
"...let me put it this way: you may prefer to ride across town in
horse-and-carriage, or across a lake in a wind-powered yacht, but no one
makes that carriage or that yacht for you anymore, at least not at a
reasonable price. So too with the book in the future..."
Read the whole (short) piece: http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0002/okrent.htm
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