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“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is…”

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.”

– Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouve. Epigraph from A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (via epigraphic)

Is the Nook over?

Is the Nook over?: The problem was not so much the extent of the losses, but what the losses might signal: that the digital approach that Barnes & Noble has been heavily investing in as its future for the last several years has essentially run its course.