Ray Bradbury Quotes

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Ebooks had to happen.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

The age of the book is almost gone.

E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.

I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.