I grew up liking books but loving computers. While I have fond memories of reading books, I have even fonder ones of going to computer camp, programming my TRS-80 and playing Pong. I belong to that first generation of children who grew up using home computers. I think it was this combination that led to my interest in the history of books and literature, to think about the way technologies change how we read and think. I am now a professor of literature at McGill University.