Sunday, March 23, 2008

romance of the book

Websites, blogs, interactive CD-roms, audio books, electronic books - none (as yet) excite the love and passion that the book does.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I think it's because they don't have the book smell. I'm the biggest technophile, and yet I will always choose an actual solid book over an ebook. It feels more real.

Andrew's red dog blog said...

I'm still plugging away reading my electronic copy of Anna Karenina on my Palm. It's not unenjoyable. It's special in its way but it's the last thing I choose to read - only when I'm stuck at, say, a tram stop with nothing else to read. Then it is very handy. There's something odd about not being able to see the whole thing. The bit of text I'm reading is disembodied. And the screen is so small I'm just seeing such a little chunk.

Miss Cackle said...

I recently bought a tiny little eee (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) pc, and I thought it might be fu to try and read books on it. It's not. Somehow I just can't believe elves and fairies can live in a computer, but they can in a book. It is fun saying eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pc, though ...

Andrew's red dog blog said...

inter-esting