>And I still believe that reading is a unique experience that
>cannot be replicated by other forms of technology.

But you've got schools already foregoing books all together for iPad's. Jury may still be out on the difference of effect, but it's a change that is already happening to some degree.

>Once a
>person has been cultivated as a reader, I don't think that any
>new form that comes along will truly replace that thrill/rush.
>Of course there are distractions but it's not the same.

At the root though, literature is story telling made for a medium. Many of the stories existed before the printed page. Should we really regard the printed page as the pinnacle? Is it the cleverness of words or the meaning behind them which conveys the value?


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"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."