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Until a couple of years ago, I also read physical books on paper, and then shifted to cheaper, easier, lighter tablet versions. Then it became a hassle to get the physical NYT delivered in Provincetown so I tried a summer of reading it on a tablet. I now read almost everything on my iPad. And as I ramble down the aisle of Amtrak's Acela, I see so many reading from tablets or laptops, with the few newspapers and physical magazines seeming almost quaint, like some giant brick of a mobile phone from the 1980s. Almost no one under 30 is reading them. One day, we'll see movies with people reading magazines and newspapers on paper and chuckle.
-- Andrew Sullivan
This is in response to Newsweek's announcement that it is going out of the print business and continuing wholly online. It saves trees and is less messy, right? Nevertheless, I still hope that books remain viable as a real item. I enjoy e-books, but one likes the option to have the thing in itself. But I do tend to be rather fetishistic.
-- Andrew Sullivan
This is in response to Newsweek's announcement that it is going out of the print business and continuing wholly online. It saves trees and is less messy, right? Nevertheless, I still hope that books remain viable as a real item. I enjoy e-books, but one likes the option to have the thing in itself. But I do tend to be rather fetishistic.
