A definite great read..Jim Bean

I find myself, like many others, reading fewer and fewer books. This doesn’t mean I buy fewer books, in fact I’m buying more in a desperate attempt to hold onto reading. But I read books now only to fall asleep — in the morning I find it impossible to pick up a book when faced with a laptop or an iPhone. On a plane it’s all about Dwell or Modified Mustangs.

So except for a few old favorites like The Years with Ross, On the Road, or Mike Davis’ City of Quartz, rereading is now nearly out of the question.

I suspect some of the same physical qualities of re-reading a favorite book that you talk about, the sense memory of book heft, texture, smell, etc, are what make it nearly impossible for me to cancel the NY Times, even though I also read it online and my Kindle and, sigh, iPhone.

Anyway, keep flying in the face of digital progress, willya? I suspect we’re actually headed backwards, and as MM said, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”