Fear of contaminated packages increased shipping time for cases of manuscripts Electronic books ( ) provided instant gratification. That said, an unexpected side effect of having produced James Nicoll Reviews for eight-plus years and almost 2300 reviews, as well as a recent foray back into roleplaying game texts, has been rediscovering my love of paper books. Paper books facilitate object permanence more effectively than do ebooks. (Note: Molly Templeton covers some of this and more in her recent essay “The Case for Touching All Your Books.”)While you do need a source of illumination in order to read paper books, the books themselves do not run out of power. Paper books are durable along several axes.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2023 23:46 UTC