When I started this site, I described myself as a “relative Luddite.” And that’s true, as far as someone can be a Luddite and run a web site. So when I read predictions of books on paper disappearing, I bristle (in addition to thinking such predictions are wrong). Of course, I’m not alone. “Pedro of hawthorn” has my back:

‘I welcome the day when I can ditch that heavy book and download a dozen titles on to my lightweight e-reader’. Good for you, just don’t peddle your jargonistic, dystopian brain-cell sapping vision of a concentrationless techno fueled post human post book world on the rest of us simple reflective paper loving folk.