Here's another thing you'll never see happen with an e-book.
Yesterday I had out my Roget's Thesaurus. I rarely use it--as in years go by--but every once a great while it proves more fruitful than thesaurus.com does. So I was looking at it. At the very front pages, a place I almost never visit.
And there, on the pages with substantiality and insubstantiality, state and circumstance, was a receipt. A hand-written receipt from my dentist, dated 1973. For fifteen dollars, which is what the good doctor let this poor student pay monthly for years. It reminded me not only of the good Dr Harvey Wixman, but also of a time when doctors ran their own billing operations and could make individual decisions to let a poor student pay fifteen dollars a month, never raising the amount, never charging interest, because that was his decision to make.
An e-book will never contain an unexpected memory.
Yesterday I had out my Roget's Thesaurus. I rarely use it--as in years go by--but every once a great while it proves more fruitful than thesaurus.com does. So I was looking at it. At the very front pages, a place I almost never visit.
And there, on the pages with substantiality and insubstantiality, state and circumstance, was a receipt. A hand-written receipt from my dentist, dated 1973. For fifteen dollars, which is what the good doctor let this poor student pay monthly for years. It reminded me not only of the good Dr Harvey Wixman, but also of a time when doctors ran their own billing operations and could make individual decisions to let a poor student pay fifteen dollars a month, never raising the amount, never charging interest, because that was his decision to make.
An e-book will never contain an unexpected memory.