What an astonishing thing a book is...

[Playinghardball]

[brer cat]

1. I agree.

I love my books and always have.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. same here...

and e books just don't cut it for me.

[Richard D]

20. I love e-books.

I can take my reader anywhere, and there's dozens upon dozens (several trees worth?) of books on it. Very handy when in foreign countries where books in a language I can read are scarce. Plus, I can purchase nearly any book I want in seconds from anywhere there's wifi. It took me a few minutes to adjust to, but I love it.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. I might feel differently

if I traveled more. But I do love the feel and smell of good books

[MrModerate]

29. I have a certain nostalgia for hardcopy books . . .

But compared to being able to carry a thousand with me at a time (with the weight and size of just one), and the hundreds of thousands of classics available for free from Project Gutenberg and similar sites . . . I don't think I'll ever buy a hardcopy book again.

[Scuba]

3. My favorite hi-tech device: The Binary Object Of Knowledge

[awoke_in_2003]

23. only 10 types of people get that

[RainDog]

4. It's definitely a more stable data storage system than computers

because it requires nothing other than a literate person to utilize it.

[petronius]

5. As I understand it, though, it took a while for them to catch on...

(An oldie, but a good watch. )

[cantbeserious]

6. So True - Wish More Took the Time To Read

eom

[Kaleva]

7. I used to read books and I should go back to that again.

[CrispyQ]

17. Do it. You won't regret it.

I stopped reading fiction when I got into tech. All my reading for 12 years has been tech books. This summer I started reading fiction again & I fell in love with it all over again.

Go to your library today!

[awoke_in_2003]

24. same here...

I was away from books for too long. Then one day I picked up Grapes of Wrath, I had never read it before. I was done 12 hours later, wondering why I had been away from them so long.

[bluescribbler]

26. Grapes of Wrath is a great book

It was a pretty good movie, too, but the book is better.

[CFLDem]

8. Never thought of books like that...

Still won't make me read more though.

[Scootaloo]

9. He's right, of course

It's an amazing thing to look at my shelf and realize I have the collected musings of hundreds of minds lined up for my perusal whenever i want to thumb through them.

Granted, it's equally amazing that I can click a button and have access to millions of people as well, but i suppose that was a little out of Sagan's timeframe

[Fumesucker]

10. Take a look, it's in a book

[WinkyDink]

11. Wish I'd known this quotation when I was teaching literature!

[JEFF9K]

12. Generally speaking, that's true. ...

However, it doesn't apply to Rush Limbaugh's latest ghost-written book, or anything "written" by Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck ...

[daleanime]

18. Actually it does....

its just that their minds are very scary.

[Zorra]

13. So true, and so well said. nt

[Delphinus]

14. Love this!

[WillyT]

15. Thank You For That !!!

& Rec !!!

[YOHABLO]

16. That is why we must do everything to save our library systems!!!

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

19. This is one of my most favorite quotes.

It should be framed and on prominent display in every school and public library.

[Lifelong Protester]

21. Thank you, as one 'bookie' to another

Love the quote-I think I'll make it my wallpaper!

[Rex]

25. Google search does the same thing to me

They just keep feeding me images as I scroll down and after three hours I forget what I was looking for.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

27. Carl Sagan was my only hero from as early in my life as I can remember. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[toby jo]

30. This one's for you Carl:

wait til that day when we connect with our brothers from another planet and they give us one of their books and we start going to town on all their literature. What better way to divine their space, their history, their story. How many stories this universe must be full of. Their music, I think, their artwork, and their books.

[Egalitarian Thug]

31. K&R always clearly right. n/t