Umberto Eco on eBooks

I’m no traditionalist. On a 250-gigabyte portable hard disk I’ve recorded the greatest masterpieces of world literature and the history of philosophy; there it’s much easier and quicker to find a quote from Dante or the Summa Theologiae than to go to a top shelf and take down a heavy volume. But I’m happy those books are still there on my shelves, useful backups for the time when electronic instruments eventually pack up.

from "On the Obsolescence of Digital Media", Chronicles of a Liquid Society