Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Concerning the full sensory experience of reading a book

For those of you out there who vehemently defend the book because of how much more it offers than simple words on a page, I thought I would share a tidbit from Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future:

"In a recent poll taken at a French university, 43% of students queried considered smell to be an important aspect of a book and refused to buy the electronic edition."
(cited in "Books and Literacy in the Digital Age" by Ralph Raab in August 2010's American Libraries)
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  1. BethSeptember 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM

    I like how those French think :) Or smell, as the case may be.

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