My Sony Touch and I declared a truce a while ago, but I still giggled over Lane Smith’s picture book defense of print:
It features a Monkey, a Mouse, and a Jackass, and it goes a little something like this:
The book itself is even better. Naturally.
My favorite moment is when the Jackass compresses one of the most dramatic scenes in Treasure Island down to a brief text message, because there are “Too many letters.”:
LJS: rrr! K? lol!
JIM:!
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And the last line is simple perfection.
