WHO NEEDS BOOKS?

Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the futur e of reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into web-surfing automatons and books themselves into museum pieces? Coa dy suggests that, even though digital advances have long been associated with the erosion of literacy, recent technologies have not debased our culture as much as they have simply changed the way we read.