Wedging yourself into a corner with just one device for all types of reading can deny you the pleasures and advantages of the other. But the truth is that different mediums offer different strengths, which are in turn tuned to different types of reading. Perhaps you’ve found your favorite reading method, and tend to stick with it.
And then, a kind of Cold War set in between two kinds of readers: bibliophiles who insist that wood pulp-the musty smell of real paper!-is the best way to read, and the rest of us, who increasingly love the convenience of the digital ebook era.įor the first time in history, when we sit down to read a book, we’re faced with more than simply a choice of what to read-we must also decide how to read it. When the Kindle appeared, readers realized that years of false starts and empty promises were over, that the e-reading revolution had really and finally arrived.
