Richard Quest Quotes

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

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

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.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

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.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

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.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

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.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.