Sunday, December 16, 2012

Rambling Mumbling 3

On my iPhone, I have Merriam-Webster and Dictionary from Farlex Inc.; both are free apps. I like Merriam-Webster better, because the word-explanation is less cluttered. Rarely I fail to find a word in Merriam-Webster and I need to look it up in Dictionary. I wish I could touch the word on the book-page and see its principal meaning there without needing to pick up and unlock the phone and then search in an app. Yet I would never want to miss the ink-on-paper feeling, the feeling of turning a page with my fingers, the pleasant feeling of weight and girth, the smell on the page, its aging; those vary from book to book, and are still missing in the e-readers.

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