The year of reading differently
Edward Stourton after vowing to spend a year using only a Kindle then very obviously not doing that at all:
But Kindle’s recent advertising carries one of the silliest boasts I have ever read: it can store 3,500 books. Assuming I live for another 25 years (which would take me to my late seventies), I would need to read 2.6 books a week to reach that total. More to the point, what possible sense would it make to substitute a thin grey slate-like object that I might forget on the Tube for the groaning shelves of the beautiful and instructive artefacts that adorn my house?
It makes lots of sense for some people. Just not you. Who never gave it a chance.
