Books as objects

With the coming of the e-book age, the reading public is often seen as divided into two camps: those who will quickly adopt the new technology because a story is a story and e-reading is much more convenient; and those who will resist until paper books are pried from their cold rigid fingers.

It's true that a story is a story, no matter how the text is presented (although I think the format does have some influence, however subtle). We have stories with us today that began in the days of oral...