Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.

1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety

Nick Bilton reports for the New York Times: "A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad ... Print is dying. Digital is surging."

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We support the printed word in all its forms: newspapers, magazines, and of course books. We think reading on computers or phones or whatever is fine, but it cannot replace the experience of reading words printed on paper. We pledge to continue reading the printed word in the digital era and beyond.

The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week (13.01.10). "Blogs can showcase, discuss and dissect new ideas weeks, even months before journals. In the next few years we’ll see if the Kindle will put a torch to those paperbacks that gather dust on our shelves."

Some fantastic type print-outs on For Print Only (FPO) provided by House Industries. Sexy.