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I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison BechdelLeah Price
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A self without a shelf remains cryptic a home without books naked.Leah Price
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When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been... . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev GrossmanLeah Price
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Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves technology and does not fetishize the physical medium of books. ~ Steven Pinker, author of The Lauguage Instinct, How the Mind Works The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.Leah Price
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RE: Kindle, i Pad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.Leah Price