"Once we get through the next couple of years of mania... people will... say, 'ok the book is not dying.'"

Says Peter Meyers, author of Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience:

Is the print book diminishing in its presence? Of course, but the function of the book itself as a break and a refuge and a chance to spend immersive time with an author telling a story, I think is incredibly valuable.

A story. So that's the thing with these people who cling to books. They want a story. A refuge and a chance to spend immersive time with an author telling a story. Why it's a mommy/daddy bedtime thing, isn't it?

I read for many hours a day, usually most of the day. Paper books and ebooks and, of course, the web. (Talk about immersive! Remember when people "surfed" the web? How quaint that sounds to me now. It's deep immersion.) Anyway, I read all the time, and it's a very active process of gathering information and ideas, generating my own thoughts and expressions, putting things together and forming new questions. I don't feel that I'm taking a break from anything and seeking refuge, spending time with a storyteller.

What's your reading like? Is it a break and a refuge and a chance to spend immersive time with an author telling a story?

(By the way, if you do feel impelled to buy some books, please use my Amazon portal.)