The New York Times just reported that even though more people are reading books on their smart phones, our taste for printed books hasn’t diminished. In fact, most people prefer them.

　　《纽约时报》刚刚报道过，虽然越来越多的人在智能手机上读书，我们对纸质书的品味依然没有消减。事实上，喜欢纸质书的人更多。

　　I know I do, even though I own an iPad and an Android tablet. There’s nothing like taking a tablet with me on a trip, especially a book tour where I’m gone for a week or two and can have as many new books or old favorites as I want.

　　我知道我是喜欢纸质书的，虽然我也有一个iPad和一个安卓平板电脑。在旅行、特别是在长达一两个星期的新书签售会期间，拿着平板电脑看看新书或者以前就喜欢的书，真是再好不过了。

　　But even though I can download an impulse purchase at 3 AM, I keep adding to my library of thousands of printed books in history, fiction, biography, politics and many other categories for a number of reasons.

　　但是，虽然我会在凌晨三点冲动地购买一些电子书，但是我也一直往我自己的图书馆里添加了数千本书——历史类，小说类，自传类，政治类……以及因为各种各样原因购置的很多书。

　　One is production quality. I’ve found books with illustrations or maps can be a little wonky in ebook form. And though typos show up in printed books, I rarely find problems like whole pages incorrectly printed in italics.

　　一个原因就是产品质量控制。我发现有插图或者地图的书在电子书阅读器上呈现得并不好。虽然纸质书上也有印刷错误，但是我很少看到整页的斜体字印刷错误。

　　I also tend to forget that I actually have a specific ebook, whereas my new printed books are clearly visible in various TBR piles in my study.

　　我也总是忘记我拥有某一本书的电子版，而我新买的这本纸质书就显眼地摆在科技商业研究的一堆书里。

　　Another is health-related. Because I have maintenance insomnia, I’ve been advised to avoid computer and tablet screens for at least an hour before bed.

　　还有就是健康原因。我患有持续性失眠，医生建议我在睡前至少一小时的时间里不要看电脑或者平板屏幕。

　　Physical books take me back to the joy of being a kid with my first library card in a magnificent Gilded Age Manhattan library.

　　纸质书让我回想起儿时阅读的快乐，让我想起了小时候拿着雄伟的曼哈顿镀金时代图书馆借书卡的日子。

　　They also remind me of great times spent in book stores of all kinds in cities I’ve traveled to here and abroad.

　　它们也让我想起在国内外不同城市的书店里的那些时光。

　　Then there’s the fact that as an author, I don’t just underline or star passages in my books, I make lengthy comments for myself which I sometimes reference at the front of the book, and I can’t do that in the same way with an ebook.

　　所以，作为一个作家，我不会仅仅吹捧或者贬低我自己的书。有时候会在书前面长篇大论，但是对于一本电子书我没法这样做。

　　But the key element is immersion. I can lose myself more readily in a well-written book when it’s spread open in front of me, as opposed to when it’s on either one of my tablets and I’m scrolling rather than turning physical pages. I love the weight and feel of a book, and especially when I’m reading a fascinating hardcover, those two pages side-by-side still feel like double doors opening to a new world.

　　但是最关键的因素是那种“浸入性”。看一本在我面前摊开的书，我会很快就沉浸在书中的世界中，而在平板上滑来滑去(而不是翻页)就不会有这种感觉。我喜欢一本书的重量和触感，尤其是那种吸引人的精装书——翻开书页就好像推开了新世界的大门一样。

（编辑：何莹莹）