Ereading Quotes

“You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.”
― Jason Merkoski, Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

“I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.”
― Steve Leveen

“Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains