"A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up no space at all!—but even a megabyte seems bulky compared to what can be conveyed in the few cubic feet of a bookshelf. What other vessel is able to hold with such precision, intricacy, and economy, all the facets of your life?"

Kevin Hartnett, writing in In Our Parent’s Bookshelves for The Millions (via thebronzemedal)