“eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is.”

“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”

“But ebooks will rule the day, and when people a few years from now talk about 'books', what they'll really be referring to are ebooks, not print books. Eventually the 'e' will be dropped, and books will be assumed to be digital, just as most music is now digital; after all, we don't refer to music as e-music.”

“Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their profound influence will endure.”

“The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.”

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.”

“Brian: I love booksProf. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?”