Luddites, Curmudgeons, and Romantics

The Huffington Post has Mark Sarvas’s ridiculously ill-conceived essay on Amazon’s Kindle.

Of course, I’ll still love my library, love sitting amid my shelves, poking randomly through titles I haven’t considered in years. But the destiny of the book lies not in satisfying Luddites, curmudgeons and romantics, but rather in introducing a new generation of readers into the joys of literature and making sure that those words we spend all those years in lonely rooms writing will find as many readers as humanly – or digitally – possible.