I work in a large bookshop. Indeed, add up the waking hours I've been there over the last seven days, I more or less live in it...

Books, definitely, over the internet. Without the internet I...

...would have been astonished by the cliffhanger ending to "Army of Ghosts";

...would not waste time reading the comments on the "Comment is Free" blogs at the Guardian website;

...would phone people in the evening for pleasant and enlightening conversation;

...would start reading some of the books I bought for £1 at the Gallway & Porter Warehouse sale during the 2004 Cambridge Folk Festival.