{"id":278,"date":"2011-06-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2011-06-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:00:00","slug":"the-contents-not-the-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"The contents, not the container"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Border makes weird things – Bent Objects, to be exact. And he concocted this still-life<\/a> at the behest of his publisher. Yep, a book publisher asked for a sculpture that showed eReaders zooming way beyond printed books… anyone else see the ‘huh?’ in that??<\/p>\n

Of course, it is the contents of books that we crave – the drama, the emotion, the relationships, the information, the humor – and sometimes the container doesn’t matter at all.<\/p>\n

If I’m looking for a map of the Lewis and Clark Trail, I don’t care if it’s online<\/a>, in a National Park Service guide<\/a>, or in a library book. <\/p>\n

I’ve read numerous books in bite-sized pieces delivered to my email by Daily Lit<\/a>, as Advance Reader Copies through NetGalley, and in whole works through Project Gutenberg<\/a> (and have even helped proofread some new digitizations there).<\/p>\n

But our brains just don’t read text on the screen the same way that they read text on a page, according to researchers<\/a>, as Thomas Larson<\/a> notes in his overview of several recent books and studies on the two methods of reading. <\/p>\n

I still love print books best for fiction, curled up in my chair, with a cat or two on my lap. No batteries to run down, no cords or mice (sorry, kitties), no overheating (laptops can be lapscorchers). The tactile experience of turning the pages<\/a> of a book contributes to our reality of the reading experience. <\/p>\n

I like real.
**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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