Another roundup of digital bookish links ranging from the mad to the sensible to the sublime:
- Borders to Sell Build-A-Bear Items as Readers Switch to E-Books - I'm still speechless. Just. Wow.
- iPad Newspapers Ripe for Innovation - Not entirely sold on this...
- Oxford English Dictionary May Never Be Published Again - Sheesh.
- Apple Says 35 Million eBooks Downloaded - Well. So.
- Publishers Struggle to Adapt to eBooks (and So Do Book Lovers) - Now that I'm firmly on the "e" side of the equation, I can't quite understand the "absolutely not" approach of paper loyalists. I, too, am obsessed with how books smell and feel. I'm a type nerd. I love to touch the pages even when I'm not reading them. Yet, still, I've made the switch and reserve the "print" versions for those books that are uber-special to me. You?
- Staples to Sell Kindles - Good on them, I say. More Kindles in more hands = more people reading, no?
I took some time away from all things electronic today so I could read and think and admire some art. It occurred to me that we spend so much time analyzing the business of books that we've (dare I say it?) forgotten about the wonder of books.
I'm working on another post which I'll share next week and it may become a weekly feature. It's all about finding the joy in books again. I'm still just as obsessed with the ever-changing bookish landscape and will continue to join many of you in the daily conversation about what it all means. Yet, I was reminded today that the reason I care so much about where all this is going is because...I care so much about books. The stories. The wonder. The gorgeous sentences. The complete escape from our tech lives.
And with that, I'm off to hopefully lose myself in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.
