Digital Reading Quotes

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

Ebooks had to happen.

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

I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

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

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

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.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

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.

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