Showing posts with label digital reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital reading. Show all posts

Friday, October 4, 2019

The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book; The New York Times, October 3, 2019

, The New York Times; The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book

""Regimes are expending so much energy attacking books because their supposed limitations have begun to look like strengths: With online surveillance, digital reading carries with it great risks and semi-permanent footprints; a physical book, however, cannot monitor what you are reading and when, cannot track which words you mark or highlight, does not secretly scan your face, and cannot know when you are sharing it with others."