David Karp Quotes

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 don't read much of anything online.

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'

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

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

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

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

Electronic books are junk.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

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.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.