The Behindlings, as Wesley calls them, spend the book debating elaborate riddles, found in candy-bar wrappers, that lead them to Canvey Island, a dreary spot in the Thames estuary.
In trying to make sense of this dichotomy, psychologist Harris Friedman, co-editor of the book Debating Psychic Experience, was the closest thing to an impartial observer that I could find.
A highly sought after political analyst and frequent commentator on race relations, immigration, black leadership, and evangelical politics, Swain is also an accomplished author of several popular books including her most recent book "Debating Immigration" (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Mr. Fine is correct that a competitive marketplace will go a long way toward sorting out the current e-book debate.
People think the e-book debate is about books versus computers, but as it goes on, you realize that they actually have a lot in common.
But so far the great e-book debate has barely touched on the most important feature that the codex introduced: the nonlinear reading that so impressed St . Augustine
In a sense, "The Art Museum" may be most valuable precisely for helping to push the analog-versus-digital-book debate along, and even more for prompting ideas about the need to think about old museums in new ways — ways that it doesn't itself explore.
The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message.
It is, I think, impossible not to be stirred by the simple dignity of those who, faced with imminent extinction, managed somehow to communicate with their families and utter the three words in the English language that really matter: 'I Love You.' [email protected] World of books debate.
