eBooks Are Taking Over, and That's Okay

Celeste offers a compelling case for eBooks over on Reading Local: Baltimore:

I am a devoted reader and book person, not a technophile, and I love ebooks. I started reading them on my Palm Pilot years ago, and I’m still reading them there when I can get them in the right format for the right price. They’re wonderful. I can easily search a book for a specific forgotten character, such as in Moby Dick (I read that boring behemoth both on Palm Pilot and in a used edition, and I’ve long since tossed the used edition) when you can’t remember Elijah in an early chapter (try to find him in ten seconds in your hard copy). I bookmarked all the pages that made me laugh out loud in Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End, which wouldn’t have worked in a paper book because I would have folded down so many corners I wouldn’t have been able to close the book. I never had to find shelf space for Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, which I didn’t like but probably would have felt guilty about tossing. I loved Meg Rosoff’s award-winning How I Live Now and Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl, but not enough to give them shelf space in a house crammed with beloved books already.

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