Katherine Center Quotes

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.