ffirehorse writes “Books are far from dead, according to this piece in the 4/25/04 Boston Globe from Edward Tenner, but the danger is in the larger information glut:
“Where Birkerts and other pessimists detected a shift from the book, Zaid sees the true problem in the hopeless disproportion between the flood of books and the time and physical space of readers already overwhelmed by the larger information deluge. The speed of publication, Zaid writes, makes us ‘exponentially more ignorant. If a person reads a book a day, he would be neglecting to read 4,000 others, published the same day.'”
The link is at:
Boston Globe.“
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