Intelligent support for digital text (in the face of negative academic and literati reaction) from Tim Parks in The New York Review of Book:
"The literary experience does not lie in any one moment of perception, or any physical contact with a material object (even less in the “possession” of handsome masterpieces lined up on our bookshelves), but in the movement of the mind through a sequence of words from beginning to end. More than any other art form it is pure mental material, as close as one can get to thought itself."
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