RE Nooks and Vooks and Kindles: Give me civilization; you can keep your progress.

I am 83 years old, live in Brazil, where new “gadgets” delay in becoming popular. Of course I am concerned at the novelty. Have been an avid reader all my life, and there is something very comforting in a book. I have been computer-literate since the 1980s but tend to keep my computer in one pocket, as it were, and my books - mostly beloved - in another. This means another electronic gadget that my children and grandchildren will carry around
and which, in this country, could easily be snatched from them. I think I say - with the late Christopher Fry: Give me civilization; you can keep your progress.



— Margrit Oyens