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4 days agoDigital life
The pleasure of books in the digital age
The debate over digital archiving versus physical books highlights the unique engagement and sensory experience that books provide in a digital age.
I've also been reading more. Actual books, that is. And buying way too many. But there is something to looking at those piles stacked around the rooms of my house. All that knowledge and history and art right there at my fingertips. And recently I picked up a magazine, a physical, paper magazine, and have occasionally again started sitting with a newspaper in the mornings. There's something about spreading it out on a table with a nice cup of coffee. Oh, the solitude...