GregS* writes “Interesting editorial by Richard Brookhiser of the New York Observer concerning the role of e-books:
Writing is an unkillable impulse. It is like second sight or a blood disease, a gift or a state beyond our control. Writing is older than writing, as the songs and stories of the illiterate attest, and will go on, in whatever should be the prevailing technology, as long as intelligence thinks in language. But the book, the bound collection of written or printed pages that has been the main vessel of writing for 1,500 years, may be on its last legs. So those who tout the e-book tell us.”
Exactly
How many legs does a book have? For the number of times it’s been “on it’s last leg”…it must have quite a few!
Demise of Books
I’m still waiting for my jet pack that I was promised back in the 1960’s.