Book scan: Why books will always be us
The HinduI never leave home without my Kindle, but funnily enough I’ll never read a “book” on it that is available to me in its physical, deadwood version. I speed-read Wendy Lesser’s Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books the first time around, and have subsequently gone back to it every so often to recover my reading equilibrium and my attention span. But e-books are impossible to “lend out”, so there is no longer that old sharing when romances, mysteries would be read and immediately passed on, putting pulp fiction in perpetual motion to the next reader, as if it deserved no lasting space in anybody’s library. Different pleasures In another recent book, The Pleasures of Reading, Antonia Fraser gets 43 writers to, as the subtitle puts it, talk about “the discovery of reading and the books that inspired them”.
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