So I borrowed the new Spenser book, the first written by Ace Atkins, from the library.
Page one, Spenser is eating a donut:
Page twenty-three, powdered donut crumbs:
That there’s the kind of tactile experience you don’t get from a Kindle. Or a book you buy yourself, for that matter.
Presumably Amazon is working on this deficiency.
I hope they do better than following up the textual donuts with crumbs. They weren’t that satisfying.
Oh, and an anecdote that you’ll probably appreciate:
I found the crumbs when I sat down in the library to look at the book while my children played a bit on the library computers. I showed the crumbs to my beautiful wife, and I closed the book on them. She said, “And you’re just going to leave them there?”
“The alternative is to dump the crumbs on the floor of the library,” I said.
Besides, I wanted the picture, so I took the crumbs home, took the photo, and then brushed them into the garbage can.
Without attracting vermin to the stacks.
You’re welcome.
On behalf of the library staff, thank you.