V Klnkenborg (in today’s NYT Op-Ed), an electronic reader from way back, counts the ways he still loves print books, and the potential danger of tangential distraction with e-reading. “But what I really love is their inertness.”, he states, fearing that too much dependency on electronic reading media, with all its interactivity, might wean us away from being “…quiet, thoughtful, patient, absorbed..” as serious consumers of the written word.

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