My 2023 in Reading

Few technologies have endured longer than the book, and none, perhaps, feel more like an active rebellion against the world we’ve inherited. Parasitic screens are everywhere and it is increasingly impossible to be still, to experience the movement of your own thoughts. Once, the book had few rivals. Then came the radio, the film screen, the television, the personal computer, and, finally, the smartphone. The last poses, by far, the greatest threat to the book’s future. It makes the internet, a wondrous invention on its own, into a worlds-devouring entity. The price of convenience is an endless sort of dread. Valuable time melts away.