“I can no more imagine … giving up the printed page than I can imagine a picture in the New York Post showing the Pope technoboogieing the night away in a disco,” Stephen King writes in Time magazine’s special Visions 21 issue this week.
That’s the horror-meister’s way of saying electronic books will never replace the paper kind – even though he just debuted “Riding the Bullet” in cyberspace instead of at the bookshop.
King thinks the Internet has spurred people to read more.
But he insists that reading from a screen doesn’t compare to experiencing the weight and texture of a book, and we agree.
We’ve always known he’s a brilliant guy. Besides writing “Christine” and all those other great books, he had the good sense to mention The Post.