http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2009/05/17/the-state-of-the-book-and-bookishness/ I say potato, you say potato... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2009/05/17/the-state-of-the-book-and-bookishness/comment-page-1/#comment-132634 linda Tue, 19 May 2009 20:07:01 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=1366#comment-132634 Yes, "long live the book." But the book is not just the physical entity on the shelf, nor is it simply the black marks on the page. At least, not if we call it "literature." Then, it becomes something else. It reads us as much as we read it. I would call this "deep reading," and I would suggest that such reading rarely occurs through digital screens. Yes, “long live the book.” But the book is not just the physical entity on the shelf, nor is it simply the black marks on the page. At least, not if we call it “literature.” Then, it becomes something else. It reads us as much as we read it. I would call this “deep reading,” and I would suggest that such reading rarely occurs through digital screens.

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