COMMENTARY on the future of books

From a blog that I follow:

Title: Walking among Dead Trees and Flat Screens:
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Now before you Kindle-lovers or early-adopters begin calling me a Luddite or a sentimentalist, let me state for the record that I too love my Kindle. Hell, I'm writing here, at the great orange destroyer of news magazines. I'm not advocating here for a resurgence in newspaper reading or paperback buying. But, I will say that something is being lost in our rush toward the digital age. Something intangible, perhaps never to be found again. Perhaps transforming into something new and unknown. Perhaps we will look back on the places where we collected books and think they were as quaint and useless as the monasteries that kept vaults of scrolls before the advent of the printing press and movable type. But even then, much as the art of calligraphy and the divine beauty of illuminated writing were lost in the march of democratic printed book, I feel we are losing things as we say goodbye to the printed word.

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