這一篇文章是知名驚悚作家Stephen King在Time發表的文章
我覺得很有道理！我雖然熱愛電腦、網路
但是閱讀實體的印刷書，是看一大堆digital files所無法取代的！
下面這篇史蒂芬金的文章與大家分享！
Book lovers are the Luddities of the intellectual world. I can no more
imagine their giving up the printed page than I can imagine a picture in the
New York Post showing the Pope technoboogieing the night away in a disco.
My adventure in cyberspace (Riding the Bullet, available on any computer near
you) has confirmed this idea dramatically. My mail and the comments on my
website (www.stephenking.com) reflect two thing: first, readers enjoyed the
story; second, most didn't like getting it on a screen, where it appeared and
then disappeared like Aladdin's genie.
Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant presence in the hand.
Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right
down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue.
The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of history
of an old book is the odor od history, and for me, the look of a new one is
still the look of the future.
I suspect that the growth of the Internet has actually been something of
a boon when it comes to reading: people with more Beanie Babies than books on
their shelves spend more time reading than they used to as they surf from site
to site. But it's not a book, dammit, that perfect object that speaks without
speaking, needs no batteries and never crashes unless you throw it in the
corner. So yes, there'll be books. Speaking personally, you can have my gun,
but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the binding.
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