Reading Is Reading, Whether Ebook Or Paper Book
July 3rd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
USA Today had a good piece today on the popularity of ebooks and ebook readers such as the Kindle. I thought this bit was good:
At the same time, some things won’t change. Reading is still a quiet, solitary engagement between you and the text, whether that text is printed on dead trees or in e-ink on a screen. The experience of getting sucked into a great story doesn’t differ, according to e-reader owners.
If anything, the growing popularity of ebooks shows that readers are still willing to pay for good writing, despite the profusion of free content available online. In that sense, it’s a reaffirmation of the old publishing business model.
I read a whole lot more now that I have my Kindle. There are a bunch of the classics that I have always wanted to read and nearly all of them are free from the Amazon Kindle store. Right now I am on a Tolstoy kick. I am enjoying him so much I think I am going to tackle his epic War And Peace. There is a reason that the classics are just that, classics. They are phenomenal books.
