Go ahead, curl up with a brand new book. Open it up for the first time and smell the fresh ink and the new paper. Run your fingers down the unbroken spine. Earmark the page with the paragraph that changed your month. Underline your favorite passage. Decide for yourself if the agonized-over cover art captures of the spirit of the story. Put it on your shelf and let its now-broken spine stand bright among the others to create a brilliant display of drama and horror, mystery and romance.
Go back in five years. Open it up for the hundredth time and smell the aged pages. Rub the cloth-soft paper between your thumb and forefinger. See if that passage still makes you cry.
OR
Get yourself an electronic book - one streamlined machine for a thousand sacred stories. How convenient. How efficient. How cutting edge.
You can keep it on your sparse shelf between your iPod® and your Sidekick®. Be sure to leave room for your Digital Soul™.
So-Called "New Dawn of Reading"
Sony Leading the Charge in the Ruination of Written Artifacts
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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