Naomi Alderman makes the case for ebooks

What we're seeing is the creation of a new art form There's one simple case for the importance of the ebook reader. It's made by the teetering piles of books around my flat, by the bookshelves two or three deep, and by the harrowing sifting sessions, sending a few precious volumes to the charity shop to make room for more. I love books. I want to read them and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. My collection increases by 50-100 volumes a year - about three shelves' worth. But while I dream of living in a home with a private library, my one-bedroom flat just doesn't have the space for all those books. So the idea of being able to store large chunks of my collection on a reader about half the width of an A5 notebook is very appealing. The ebook has been a while arriving. Project Gutenberg has been... [read full story]