Interesting Chicago Tribune column on e-book acceptance

 
  Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune "Internet
critic", writes today about his surprisingly positive
experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. I say
"surprisingly positive" because Steve Johnson was
surprised, e.g,  "Like most English majors...I had
scoffed at the idea of a novel translating to digital
format."
   
  An excerpt:
   
  "I just read 'Pride and Prejudice' on my BlackBerry.
And, reader, I liked it. Against all my own prejudices, all
my own pride in the history and tradition of the printed
word, I liked it...The experience taught me that a book is
not what I had thought it to be. It is not, in any important
sense, typeface, paper stock or cover art. A book is,
foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they
are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform
agnostic."
   
  Full text at:
   
  http://tinyurl.com/2v3ef8
   
  Bernie Sloan

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