I have nothing insightful to add about ebooks, but you might want to keep that post-it note over your webcam, Rachel: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201201/luis-mijangos-hacker-webcam-virus-internet

rachelfershleiser:

booksinthekitchen:

fsgbooks:

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”

-Jonathan Franzen in his first-ever press conference.

This is literally how a 90-year-old person talks about computers.

“But it’ll just disappear! How do I know it’s still there when I turn the page? Get my grandson on the phone—he knows about these things.”

This is where I admit I used to keep a post-it note over my macbook camera because WHAT IF PEOPLE CAN SEE ME?