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Several years ago on this blog I presented an argument against e-books , vowing that I would never use them. But during this pandemic, e-boo...

Elated to find a flash drive a few days ago tucked into a drawer, which contains files of some prose pieces I had never printed out and now ...

1. Last night I rode the Metro to D.C. for the first time in many months. What struck me most was that every passenger was looking at and ta...

Hurricane Irene passed through this weekend, hurling branches against our house all night into early morning. Acorns rolled madly across the...

In a recent post, I gave my five arguments about why (some) books should continue on paper. But the reality is that the non-virtual books ...

Surprisingly, many writers I know are starting to embrace e-book technology. They cite their portability —parents can load up a bunch of ki...

I wanted to write a post about the value of writing on paper—how it is preserved no matter the software system or hardware storage mechan...

At a PTA meeting I went to a couple of nights ago, some parents argued that, for ecological reasons, the PTA newsletter should no longer be ...

I am not going to buy a Kindle. Not even if print newspapers disappear and "print" news is available only on such a device. Not ev...