Much more of value in this post, you should read it!

Maybe being the author of a blog is a new ver sion of being an author of a book. I started (although I’m not the only author of) Book futurism because I started stringing together a bunch of work that seemed to be about the future of reading; through that, my writing here, and some of the things I wrote else­where, I became a kind of authority on the subject (only on the internet, but still, I like who links to me); and maybe I’ll write a book, or maybe I’ll start a blog with a different title when it’s time to write about some thing else. I don’t know.

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