Weirdly, actually having it doesn't seem to make a huge difference to me. It does to me. But, then, I'm the bibliophile son of a librarian. So the new world ma

Weirdly, actually having it doesn't seem to make a huge difference to me. It does to me. But, then, I'm the bibliophile son of a librarian. So the new world manifests as a continuous series of oddnesses: I'm purging my book and map and magazine collection, and it is getting much smaller, and that is weird. The web changes the habits of a lifetime. It is hard to perceive long-term changes, even when they are big.