Reading on the iPad
An extensive run down of the future of books in the physical vs. digital sense. What I love is the grounded notion of keeping the physicality of books, but only when they are used as such. Reminds me of e.e. cummings layouts. Craig drives home that the books we’re loosing, the ‘bricks’, those trashy beach novels, and maybe a couple of malcom gladwells. This notion seems pretty obvious, but then again, these less precious books are the ones that got traded around like crazy. The ones that you would lend to a friend and not worry about their safe return. Perhaps, though, those instances of trade and lending are less valued than when a good book finds a new temporary home.
