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# Digital Books
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2010/03/digital-books/
- Published: 2010-03-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:51:56.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

I'm sure that the [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015T963C?ie=UTF8&tag=farawsoclose-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015T963C&ref=chrisenns.com) and the forthcoming [iPad](https://www.apple.com/ca/ipad/?ref=chrisenns.com) are great advancements in digital e-reader technology, but I'm still reluctant to give up reading an actual book:

> A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up no space at all!—but even a megabyte seems bulky compared to what can be conveyed in the few cubic feet of a bookshelf. What other vessel is able to hold with such precision, intricacy, and economy, all the facets of your life: that you bake bread, vacationed in China, fetishize Melville, aspire to read Shakespeare, have coped with loss, and still tote around a copy of The Missing Piece as a totem of your childhood. And what by contrast can a Kindle tell you about yourself or say to those who visit your house? All it offers is blithe reassurance that there is progress in the world, and that you are a part of it.

*Via [The Millions.com](https://www.themillions.com/2010/02/in-our-parents-bookshelves.html?ref=chrisenns.com) via [everythinginthesky.com](https://everythinginthesky.com/post/419800861?ref=chrisenns.com)*