Bob Cox pointed to this NYTimes Story on the \”loss\” of books.
This
one is worth the read, it is VERY well written.
\”For as long as many of us can remember — if
we\’re serious about reading, that is — we\’ve sat with
paper in hand, staring at symbols to which we, more
frequently than not, credit far more than mere abiding
pleasure. We owe these pages whatever ability we
have to see the world with clarity. We credit them, and
justly so, with whatever ability we have to see ourselves
with generosity and empathy. To imagine these as
gone, or truly obscure, to imagine that otherwise
intelligent, eager, inquisitive people around us might
well feel in 10 or 20 years that picking up a book is
something quaint is to imagine a postmodern hell. . . .
\”
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