What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
Electronic books are junk.
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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