Although all my books have been available on Amazon Kindle for a while, I only got a Kindle a few weeks ago. Since then, I think the only paper book I’ve read is Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain, which isn’t available on Kindle.

Daishin Stephensonwas giving me some shit (as is her wont) about this. “I haven’t seen you with a real book since you got your Kindle,” she said.

I looked up from my Kindle. “This is a real book I’m reading right now,”...