And finally, we couldn’t help but reshare our @CultureDesk's post of this LitHub article in praise of reading and print. It has everything a person could need — references to Terry Pratchett, Carl Sagan, George Orwell and Sven Birkerts, and some extremely pithy writing of its own. "The ephemerality of the internet is attractive to entropy, for how much of what’s been written over the past few decades has all but vanished, our prodigious output a daily burning of the Library of Alexandria, while stone, papyrus, vellum, and paper can endure for centuries,” writes Ed Simon. “A printed book is a living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood, so that compared to turning pages, mere scrolling is anemic.”

https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-print-why-reading-remains-essential-in-an-era-of-epistemological-collapse/

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