More on "intimist" discourses about the book

Riverside, CA: I really don't have a question. I just want to say that I- and many others like me-would never in a million years trade the intimacy and tangibility of an actual book for any type of electronic reading device. Imagine reading Dostoyevsky or Thomas Mann or Virginia Woolf and not having the satisfaction of turning the page or holding the book in your hands or smelling the musk of the paper. Really, this whole thing sounds like a horrible scheme to mechanize the entire reading experience and suck every drop of romance and intimacy from it.

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