“Almost always digitally. I feel about hardcover books the way I feel about phone calls. There is a burden associated with receiving a book. Like when you get that phone call and you wonder “Is this an emergency, did someone die? You couldn’t have used an asynchronous form of communication? You really want me NOW?” So when someone gives me a book, I’m grateful, but it’s kind of like giving me a CD. Now I have to convert this.
Plus, I live in an New York apartment. Space is the most valuable thing in my life. Time is money, space is money, too.”
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Baratunde Thurston on how he reads books these days (via geometricallypure)
So true. This year I decided to get rid of all my DVDs and CDs and limit the amount of books I own drastically. Best idea ever!!