Nit-pick, but this lead--"Would you like paper or plasma? That's the question book lovers face now that e-reading has gone mainstream."--tries too hard for alliteration. Chances of you or anybody else owning a plasma ereader or tablet are, essentially, zero: unless you read your books on a big-screen TV, you're almost certainly not using plasma.
But it's alliterative, and about what I'd expect for The Takeaway. Geez, I miss Talk of the Nation, which used to air at the time The Takeaway and another hour of NPR HappyTalk now air. (Here and Now? Is that the name? I call it "Chirpy public radio.")
- walt crawford
And, thinking on it, "Would like paper or pixels?" would have been equally alliterative and not, you know, dead wrong.
- walt crawford
Yeah, but they probably thought "paper or pixels" was overdone. I used it in a story in 2000 about literary magazines online.
- laura x
I can almost hear the thought process at The Takeaway: "Paper or plasma is just wrong. How about paper or pixels?" "Nahh. NewRambler used that in 2000." "OK, then paper or plasma it is."
- walt crawford