{"id":38754,"date":"2012-09-19T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=38754"},"modified":"2014-01-01T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T16:18:53","slug":"kids-are-alright-like-e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/kids-are-alright-like-e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Are All Right, Like E-books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Boy-Reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38755\" title=\"kidsreading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Boy-Reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/09\/how-to-write-a-movie-about-a-writer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Onscreen writers<\/a> \u201ccan be cynical hacks, genre stars or dislocated sportswriters. In romantic comedies, the writer is often a witty Lothario or a good-natured wimp. Either way, the profession\u2019s primary function is to provide the character with plenty of free time.\u201d <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/science-technology\/mri-reveals-brain%E2%80%99s-response-to-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen can stimulate brain function<\/a>. Presumably, so can other authors.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI am posting this for people who have Kindles, are in the U.S., and might want to get this. I am not posting this for people to tell me that they hate Kindles, hate all e-books, or are grumpy because they do not live in a country where they can download this.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neilgaiman\/posts\/10151044224926016\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> makes a PA on Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>You know who loves e-books? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/9551136\/E-books-could-become-the-norm-for-children-as-sales-soar.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Kids<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As for the old-fashioned, paper kind, well, nowadays they\u2019re less \u201creading material\u201d and more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/welcome.html?destination=http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3001359\/why-books-are-ultimate-new-business-card\"_blank\">\u201cbusiness cards.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onscreen writers \u201ccan be cynical hacks, genre stars or dislocated sportswriters. In romantic comedies, the writer is often a witty Lothario or a good-natured wimp. Either way, the profession\u2019s primary function is to provide the character with plenty of free time.\u201d Jane Austen can stimulate brain function. Presumably, so can other authors. \u201cI am posting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8679,300,81,3340,1452,149,7723],"class_list":["post-38754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-e-books","tag-jane-austen","tag-movies","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-neuroscience","tag-news","tag-roundup"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kids Are All Right, Like E-books by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 19, 2012 \u2013 Onscreen writers \u201ccan be cynical hacks, genre stars or dislocated sportswriters. 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