A LOT of ink has been spilled on the supposed death of the printed word. Ebooks are outselling paper books. Newspapers are dying. “Phone books are already dead,” said James Reid-Cunningham of the Boston Athenaeum library at a conference called , at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May. “The days of the codex as the primary carrier of information are almost over.”
This has inspired a lot of hand-wringing from publishers, librarians, archivists – and me, a writer and lifelong bibliophile who grew up surrounded by paper books. I’ve been blogging since…
