On The Grauniad’s Book Blog we have the deep joy of encountering The rise of the virtual bookshelf, where – for some reason – people publish photos of their bookshelves for the delectation of others of a like-mind.
My comment:
I remember back in the days of newsgroups - when the Grauniad's website was still all fields - one contributor to rec.arts.books saying he was going to give up reading the group because it seemed he spent all his time reading about books, rather than reading the actual books themselves.
Such is the rate of technological progress that now we can, instead of merely reading about books, look at photos of them instead of reading them.
Groovy.
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