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via everythinginthesky
“A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up no space at all!—but even a megabyte seems bulky compared to what can be conveyed in the few cubic feet of a bookshelf. What other vessel is able to hold with such precision, intricacy, and economy, all the facets of your life: that you bake bread, vacationed in China, fetishize Melville, aspire to read Shakespeare, have coped with loss, and still tote around a copy of The Missing Piece as a totem of your childhood. And what by contrast can a Kindle tell you about yourself or say to those who visit your house? All it offers is blithe reassurance that there is progress in the world, and that you are a part of it.”
The Millions: In Our Parents’ Bookshelves (via everythinginthesky : morrowplanet : clapifyoulikeme)
Books out of identity, identity out of books.
posted 3/1/2010
reblogged from everythinginthesky
