Susan Orlean on the beautiful ephemerality of digital books:

“Ebooks reduce the experience of the book to something almost vaporous, a whisper, as if the book traveled to you on the wind. Oddly, that makes them more like where the whole undertaking of storytelling began, with oral recitation.”

Confessions of a Kindle Convert

Complement with Ursula K. Le Guin on the book as technology, Italo Calvino on what makes great writing great, and my book recommendations.