Walt Whitman

There's an excerpt from Andrew Piper's "Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times" on Slate that trumpets the tactile advantages of p-books, positing that "E-reading isn't reading." 

Quoth Piper: "For Augustine, the book’s closedness—that it could be grasped as a totality—was integral to its success in generating transformative reading experiences. Its closedness was the condition of the reader’s conversion. Digital texts, by contrast, are radically open in their networked form. They are marked by a very weak sense of closure."

Aristotle, Braille, Delacroix and our favorite, El Lissitzky, also pop in.

—Brian Howard

"Open Book," a new national television and multimedia program, will premiere May 13 on LinkTV. The half-hour weekly television program about books and writers—which will be hosted by book publicist and editor Ina Howard-Parker, who also created the show—will focus on contemporary and historical literary production in a different location each week.

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