‘Reading an e-book is like having virtual sex’

The author has posted comments on this articleGunjan Verma, TNN | Jan 22, 2015, 02.35PM IST

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Electronic books versus paperbacks have always been a point of debate amongst the authors as well as the readers. But novelist Alberto Manguel gave the subject an interesting angle when he said that reading an ebook is like having virtual sex! The session of the renowned author at the Jaipur Literature festival was based on his famous novel - The Library Night.

"Writers write because they are compulsive readers and they do so in book-lined rooms. Forget about art imitating life: literature is a self-generating, self-referring activity." The Argentinian bibliophile Alberto Manguel, whose books include A History of Reading, is an expert on snugly closed circle, symbolised by the private library he installed in a 15th-century barn in the Loire.

As Manguel regretfully observes that the 'multimedia library' is potentially erasing the universal library of which Renaissance humanists dreamed, he feels that the traditional library is like a sacred place - one can own it, love it and live with it. It also reflects the kind of books one likes to read. Manguel added that though we always think that literature is about what writers write, it is vice versa. "Literature is always about what readers chose to read. Because a writer can write everything but readers only chooses to read what he wants," said Manguel.

Manguel is sad enough to know that the future belongs to the users of the Kindle reading device and to rough librarians who discard books as after transferring their contents to disks or CD-Roms that may be illegible in a decade.

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