“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”

“We become the books we read.”

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”

“The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.”

“There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:”