Accomplishment
Written by David on December 12th, 2008Via Chris Bodenner, Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Kindle: “The thing just doesn’t give the same sense of accomplishment and closure [as a book]. It’s like running a marathon–but on a treadmill.”
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Or like having an orgy–but with blow-up dolls.
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The main thing that would keep me from using an e-reader is that most of what I read now comes from the library and is long out of print. Maybe when Kindle converges with Google’s project of back-scanning old books we’ll be able to read anything we want, whenever we want - almost the way it is now with music and video.