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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:09 pm by Cristina   No comments
We read on reflector.com about that question which has been repeatedly posed for the last few years: can e-books replace good old paper books?

The Greenville's librarians are sure they can't, and they use a Brontëish example:

Ask them if William Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury," Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" or any of the other 185,000 books on Sheppard's shelves still resonate in today's society, and they answer with an unequivocal yes.

"It's the personal, intimate nature of books," Jones said. "It's hard to curl up with a computer."

Indeed who hasn't curled up with a Brontë novel on a chilly day? Surely only a few unfortunate people have missed it.

From BrontëBlog we would like to thank the inventors and manufacturers of e-books and e-texts, because they have made so many things so much easier. But - as the Greenville librarians say - there's nothing endearing about sitting in front of a screen and reading away.

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