"Books, as any visitor to a civilised house knows, do furnish a room. Books never look untidy, even when piled in tumbling stacks ... There is something sensuous, possibly even erotic, about the book. It appeals to both the senses and the intellect as well as to your hidden interior designer. And what curious pleasures are to be found in antiquarian bookshops - the market for used Sony Readers will perhaps never be quite so attractive."
There are those who love to predict the end of books and there are those who say, "You're crazy!" Peter Crawshaw says "You're crazy" in the BBC News Magazine. He's got lots of great reasons why books will always be here ... including the decorative reason above. And for those of you who don't want to READ about why we need books, there is a nifty 3 minute video.
While he argues that books are here to stay, my New York Magazine arrived Monday with an article predicting the end of the book publishing industry ... as we know it. You can read about that here.
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