“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

—  Quintin Jardine

From Quintin Jardine’s blog, ‘The Kindle threat’, September 29, 2010.

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