I am speaking instead of something in between, an idea that is quickly becoming irrelevant in the digital age: the book as an artifact filled with information, insight and inspiration that you can hold in your hands, give to someone else… or destroy.įritz Leiber wrote a book called Our Lady of Darkness in 1978 (it would go on to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel that year), and in 2010 Tor has reprinted it in trade paperback (it’s also available as an ebook). At the same time I do not mean to fetishize the book, waxing rhapsodic about leather bindings and deckle-edged paper on the contrary, my library is a diverse collection of everything from pristine first edition hardcovers to beat-up secondhand mass market paperbacks. But saying that one loves books is different from saying that one loves literature, a distinction becoming even more meaningful in these days of online publishing and ebooks. I guess that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, considering that I write book reviews for this website.
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