An article in the New York Times ponders the question of what is lost when you can’t easily see what people are reading — a Kindle or Sony eReader looks the same whether you’re reading James Joyce or Stephen King. No more judging someone’s personality with a glance at the book under their arm. You know, its the same thing with music players — no more flipping through someone else’s albums. We’ll just have to find some other way to make shallow, snap judgements!
Is a Book Still a Book on Kindle? – NYTimes.com
Ellen Feldman, who writes literary fiction, worries about what will happen to the ineffable kinship among book lovers if the Kindle becomes ubiquitous. She was having lunch in an Upper East Side restaurant when she saw the man at the next table reading “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.”
“I started speculating about him,” said Ms. Feldman,
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