Johann Hari has some thoughts on e-readers that we hadn’t considered in our June 14 post.
He’s not opposed to e-books in principal. But the more they’re capable of doing, he says, the less they’re able to preserve those aspects of dead-tree books that we actually need.
“The object needs to remain dull,” Hari writes, “so the words – offering you the most electric sensation of all: insight into another person’s internal life – can sing.”
Sounds downright reactionary.
