Chronicle of Higher Ed: Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
”I don’t mean the already overwrought debate over the crisis of the book as codex — the daily New York Times announcement that electronic readers stand primed to eliminate paper books. [snip] The issue isn’t the decline in book sales, though it, too, remains an element of the big picture. I am talking about the growing feeling among humanities professors — intuitive and anecdotal, shared over lunch like an embarrassing tale about a colleague — that for too many of today’s undergraduates, reading a whole book, from A to Z, feels like a marathon unfairly imposed on a jogger.” This sadly makes me think of graphic design, where ‘negative space’ is as important as ‘positive space’. And the risk of losing context.
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