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Monday, October 30, 2006
Don’t make book on it
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There are books in every room of my large house, including the bathrooms and kitchen. There are bookcases in most rooms. The bedroom looks like the aftermath of an explosion at a bookstore with books piled by both sides of the bed, on the night stands and piled in corners.
Some of them are books I will own forever, others are destined to become trade-ins at the used bookstore. When my wife and I travel about a fourth of one suitcase is filled with books.
On paper - no pun intended - my wife and I would be perfect candidates for one of the e-book devices. These gadgets can be loaded with electronic texts of books and try hard to be as book-like as possible in the way you use them.
If I learned to enjoy reading on one of these, some of the litter would be gone in my house and - when traveling - I could take what would amount to stacks of books along without filling a suitcase.
But - and maybe it’s my age - using these gadgets has never been satisfactory for me. I wonder if younger generations - folks who grew up reading online - will have a different attitude. (I also wonder if reading is becoming a lost art - but that’s a subject for another blog post).
There’s an interesting discussion on these readers (as well as a counter-point about the old fashioned printed book) here. A colleague passed it along in an e-mail this morning and now I’m passing it along to you.
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