My “to be read URGENTLY” shelf as it currently stands. The Satanic Verses and A Prayer for Owen Meaney are definitely the next two on the list.
A very interesting and and in-depth article on the environmental comparison between electronic and dead tree books.
aah, books on Flickr.
Part of the reason I’m not embracing the e-book revolution is that I love books as much for their physicality as for the words and ideas within them. Sure, it’s convenient to have dozens or hundreds or books on one small device, but what about the feeling of calm I get when looking at a wall of books? What about the joy of hunting through the shelves of a second-hand bookshop? What about that smell of old, yellowed pages - or of new, freshly printed ones? What about looking up from reading on the bus to see someone grinning as they remember their pleasure when they read the same book?
