A book is a souvenir of an idea.
Seth Godin – on The Good Life Project
You come in here, and you see something, and you go “Oh yeah!” and then you can go do something.
Whereas who knows where it is on my harddrive?
They’re like old friends.
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I think that the magic [of a book] is sort of like how people used to talk about radio, as “Theatre of the Mind.” You would hear things but you’d have to put the pictures on in your head.
Books are even more than that because you don’t even hear it, you have to add the voice, the noise in your head.
What is magic about books… is that it’s the only form of media that can be reliably produced by mostly one person, but that stands the taste of time.
A tweet goes away, a Facebook update goes away, a movie you need like a hundred people.
So this is like that sweet spot inbetween where I can say “Every word in this book I wrote, I thought about it for a year, it’s what I was thinking about at the time. Here.”
And twenty years from now and fifty years from now, you can still read it.