Is it preferable to read long format content on a screen or on the printed page? This is a question that I think we’re going to be wrestling with as a culture for some time to come. In the meantime our tendency is probably to do much of our day-to-day reading online (I’ve seen plenty of posts lately declaring all kinds of ridiculous things to the tune of “I don’t read books anymore, therefore books must be dead”), though I know there are still plenty of people holding out for actual books. I read quite a bit, both online and in books. In fact, I often bookmark articles that I know I’d be more likely to read if they were in print than I am with them on a screen. This is particularly true of longer content (much of it written by my favorite publications like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and WIRED). So, after reading a post by Emmet Connolly, I began collecting those longer articles and creating printed anthologies of them on Lulu.com. The one pictured above is my third, which I just printed last week. This time, I kept a bookmarks folder of articles that I felt represented the most important ideas I’d encountered in 2009- so I called it “A Year of Ideas.”
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