Some of us always thought they were
On Their Death Bed, Physical Books Have Finally Become Sexy.
Mind you, that is written by someone who hasn't visited Charing Cross Road very recently, as in, several decades, because you will no longer find numerous secondhand bookshops there.
Also, as I have remarked many times before, Not All Books are yet electronic.
Though on the curious contemporary fetishisation of reading, see all those self-help articles on how good it is for you - my most recent larf-I-fair-lay-on-the-ground moment was seeing an exhortation to read SIX books a year - and about bibliotherapy.
Sigh.
Read because it's fun. Flaunt your tatty and even embarrassingly covered paperbacks. Get your nose into a book. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2437504.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
comments.