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# The personal loss of a printed book
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/the-personal-loss-of-a-printed-book/
- Published: 2012-08-30T07:58:11.000Z
- Updated: 2012-08-30T07:58:11.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

Over the last few days, I've been getting the feeling that buying a Kindle is the best decision I've ever made. What I find unsettling, however, is that I don't seem to miss printed books as much as I thought I would: the transition was so smooth that it might almost have been irreversible. It seems I fell in love with what the books had to say and not with the books themselves, a disengagement with the metaphysical form and a betrothal to its humble, degenerate function