Charlie O'Hay
Common knowledge
There's little doubt that eBooks are coming...they save paper, they save space, they don't decay with exposure to light nd air, and users can download multiple texts to a single reader.
But I'll miss the smell of books. Dusty musty old books. Books that have been read and re-read. Handled and dog-eared and bookmarked. I'll miss paging thru an old book of poems and reading the notes scrawled in the margin by some forgotten hand.
Above all, I'll miss the near-human fragility of books.
Common knowledge
There's little doubt that eBooks are coming...they save paper, they save space, they don't decay with exposure to light nd air, and users can download multiple texts to a single reader.
But I'll miss the smell of books. Dusty musty old books. Books that have been read and re-read. Handled and dog-eared and bookmarked. I'll miss paging thru an old book of poems and reading the notes scrawled in the margin by some forgotten hand.
Above all, I'll miss the near-human fragility of books.