http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/07/11/are-blogs-destroying-serious-reading.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:33:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/07/11/are-blogs-destroying-serious-reading.html#comment-174 Chris Devonshire-Ellis Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:28:39 +0000 http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/07/11/are-blogs-destroying-serious-reading.html#comment-174 I don't buy that. I always have at least two books on the go - not just because I always get delayed at Chinese and Indian airports and need something to read to pass the time - but also because I enjoy it. A story unfolds so much better in print. What am I reading now ? Colin Thubrons "Shadow of the Silk Road" and William Dalrymple's "The Last Mughal". Neither of which are available online. Plus you can put a book down to look at a pretty girl in a departure lounge or hotel atrium. You don't do that with a computer in a business centre. Books = Romantic, pleasurable. Online = Business, work. Anyone who can't see the distinction isn't egtting out enough. (says he, writing online !) I don’t buy that. I always have at least two books on the go - not just because I always get delayed at Chinese and Indian airports and need something to read to pass the time - but also because I enjoy it. A story unfolds so much better in print. What am I reading now ? Colin Thubrons “Shadow of the Silk Road” and William Dalrymple’s “The Last Mughal”. Neither of which are available online. Plus you can put a book down to look at a pretty girl in a departure lounge or hotel atrium. You don’t do that with a computer in a business centre. Books = Romantic, pleasurable. Online = Business, work. Anyone who can’t see the distinction isn’t egtting out enough. (says he, writing online !)

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