on paper

[Bob W]

> > 
> > the text is obviously the most important aspect of reading, 
> but every writer
> > I've ever met has also been a reader and has been in love 
> with books. Most
> > of the great novelists have at some time in their career 
> written about the
> > joys of books in much the same terms that Marnie and I have 
> been using. 
> 
> Yes, but it's entirely separate from, and secondary to, the *writing*.
> 

Sure, but ebooks are about reading and readers, not about writing, so I
don't get your point.


> Neither you nor George Orwell would buy Danielle Steele 
> novels no matter 
> how magnificent the paper, printing and binding.
> 

You may have stumbled up on my guilty secret!

> And you would still love George Orwell's writing if it were only 
> available in cheap paperback form.
> 

That's how I first read it. But even cheap paperbacks are part of the ritual
of browsing, choosing and reading, and it's this ritual associated with
being a reader that the Kindles (and you, as far as I can tell) don't seem
to understand.

Bob