“Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10
“.. books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.”
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