One: Alan Jacobs, in a post titled “The Inevitable,” swats away multiple cliches concerning e-reading. It’s something of a response to this Times piece about textbooks. One highlight:
…thinking and explaining can be difficult, which is why most proponents of new technologies fall back on two standard lines: (1) Human Nature Has Irreversibly Changed , and (2) Beware Lest the Wheels of History’s Juggernaut Crush You. I swear, these people are going to make technophobes of me yet.
Two: Warren Ellis talks music and comics. Discussed, among others: Paul Pope and Jim Lee.