“Here, on the internet, is a nowhere space, a shallow time. It is a flat and impenetrable surface. But with a book, we dive in; we are sucked in; we are immersed, body and soul.”— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.orgTagged: Tech, Books, Reading, Why Read, Time
“[T]he power of art—and many books are, still, art, not entertainment—lies in the way it turns us inward and outward, all at once. The communion we seek, scanning titles or turning pages, is not with others—not even the others, living or long dead, who wrote the words we read—but with ourselves. Our…”— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.orgTagged: Tech, Books, Reading, Why Read
“We call this endless, immaterial material a feed, though there’s little sustenance to be found.”— Mairead Small Staid, theparisreview.orgTagged: Tech, Feed, Algorithms, Substance