eBooks Good News For Literary World: 'Technology Not Barrier To Depth'

'Technology Not Barrier To Depth'

And yet, what may be most interesting about the Pew study is its timing, since this is the year e-readers took off. What does it say about us that, on the one hand, we don't seem so enthralled by the hit-and-run of Twitter while on the other, we can't get enough of electronic books? Only this: that technology is not a barrier to depth, to engagement, to the cultural discussion, and that perhaps we want the same thing from our reading as we always have, regardless of the form it takes.

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