I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. β¨ Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.
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