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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

— Billy Collins

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

— Nicholson Baker

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

— Marco Arment

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

— Lisa See

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.

— Jen Lancaster

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

— Andrew Wylie

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

— Chris Riddell

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

— Sophie McShera

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

— John Banville

I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

— Jen Lancaster