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Do Ebooks Make the Reading Experience Too Narrow and Personal?
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I don't think that has anything to do with ebooks. But more with the increased ease we can communicate with strangers. And personal? Yes, it's much easier to look up the author and send him/her emails about what you liked and didn't like about the book.
For me, ebooks have broadened my reading experience. I've been reading books I'd never heard of, by authors I've never heard of. Before, I was "bound" by the books my library decided I should read (and this was fine when I lived at home, as I had a huge library close by, but when I moved, I moved to a small provincial town, with a library with only a small selection. I stopped going there as I never found "new" authors...). I just can't keep on buying all those paper books (we've actually moved twice now, partly because we didn't have room for books anymore
), but with ebooks, space is not an issue.