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I like paper. I like the look a book takes on when you've read it once, and again, twice. I like writing marginalia. The feel of paper, the upside-downedness in my lap. I have downloaded lots of books, and begun setting up a way to format them for stitched binding, and a little jig to do the actual binding: the latter remains a mental picture. But reading on a machine really isn't as pleasurable. Still, I think it will catch on, just as paper metaphors on computer screens will die off in a generation or four.



Maybe, but they can't begin to compete with the smell of the smoke, the crackling of the fire and the flames dancing in the darkness, seeming to illustrate the story that the bard is reciting from memory, but with a veracity that convinces you he was there when it all happened. No, you'll never match that with mere flecks of ink on pieces of paper.