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"Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet. Americans buy more than half of all e-books sold internationally — unless Europeans fly regularly to the United States for the sole purpose of downloading reading material from an American I.P. address. […] I began asking the multilingual, multi­ethnic artists around me why that was. It was 2 a.m., at Soho House, a private club I’d crashed in the former Hitler­jugend headquarters. One installationist said, “Americans like e-books because they’re easier to buy.” A performance artist said, “They’re also easier not to read.” True enough: their presence doesn’t remind you of what you’re missing; they don’t take up space on shelves."

Joshua Cohen, My Berlin Airlift - NYTimes.com
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    Interesting observation about ebooks and Americans.
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  22. tumbledbookshelf said: Yeah, also for Americans living abroad, e-books are often the easiest way to get a lit fix! I treasure real books, but when I was living in Belgium it was a heck of a lot easier to download than to hop a train to Sterling or Waterstones in Brussels.
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