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February 19, 2024

The Jewish Romance with the Book Meets the Age of Digitization

“Make your books your companions!”

Writers have speculated for decades about the possibility that computers in their various forms will one day replace physical books. So far, this doesn’t seem to be happening, which is comforting to someone like me who stubbornly refuses to use a Kindle or similar apparatus. I’m also comforted by the thought that, even if books do go the way of the typewriter and the rotary phone, observant Jews will preserve them as the only way to read and study on Shabbat.

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