On the Kindle
From a comment on Alan Jacobs’ blog:
…I don’t think the contemporary world is so furiously enamored with the written word that we can regard an innovative way to access it as a suspicious luxury rather than an urgent necessity.
Publishers and book reviewers have been lamenting the death of books for years now.
Perhaps, as this commentor suggests, new media by itself (like the Kindle, Google books, and other forms of electronic reading) won’t solve the problem, only delay its inevitable consequence.
