Sam’s random musings

What Will Happen To Books–NY Times:

Ok, so I’m in a bit of a emotional whirlwind today, and maybe that has something to do with my reaction to yesterday’s New York Times magazine cover piece on the future of books in the sense that I’m looking for all kinds of validation for leaving my desk job and deciding to try to bring these ideas to wider audiences, and that I’m hoping that when the New York Times starts getting all visionary that maybe I’m (we’re) really on to something knowing full well that the Times has been wrong before and that all of this is a crap shoot, but that this paragraph literally gave me chills (though it may not have on any other “normal” day):

I for one love books, I love the feel of them, I love the smell of old ones, there is something in the tactile feel that is so visceral. I can not imagine sitting in bed falling asleep with a laptop or somekind of tablet that will have the same feel. Will the same be true for my kids… that is unlikely

(Via weblogged News.)