Folks like me who remember journalism before the digital age still love print. We like the Internet too — like a mentor of mine once said, “It’s like Toyland — look at what we can do.” But there’s nothing quite like the feeling of a book in my hands. Turning pages. Underlining my favorite parts — and in a used book, seeing what phrases other underlined and the notes they wrote in the margins. Author Ariel Gore, who has a great down-to-earth voice, agrees, writing that, “To me, print will always mean life.”
I took the title of this post from two of the 10 reasons she loves print, listed here. Click through to read her whole piece:
- Print Gets Your Hands Dirty.
- Print Lets Me Unplug My Ego.
- Print is Intimate.
- Print Remembers Where it Came From.
- Print Gets Warped and Dog-Eared.
- Print is Sexy.
- Print Survives the Apocalypse.
- Print Keeps Our Secrets.
- Print Lives. And Keeps on Living.
- Print Doesn’t Get Jealous.