Newsweek (@Newsweek) polled a few literary leaders on their thoughts about where the future of reading is headed, given that the format of books is “evolving at warp speed” thanks to daily digital advances in publishing. Here’s a quote from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress:
The new immigrants don’t shoot the old inhabitants when they come in. One technology tends to supplement rather than supplant. How you read is not as important as: will you read? And will you read something that's a book — the sustained train of thought of one person speaking to another? Search techniques are embedded in ebooks that invite people to dabble rather than follow a full train of thought. This is part of a general cultural problem.