Are we digitalled out? The retro revolution is here

Boardgames are booming, vinyl sales are taking off, e-reader sales are slowing, and there’s a vogue for retro Nokias among hipsters. Are we ‘digitalled out’, asks Ed Power

IF YOU can tear yourself away from Twitter for a moment, you may notice friends wrestling with an arcane technology: sheafs of printed pages glued together with a cardboard cover. These are ‘books’ and they are the big new thing.

Yes, the book — disdained three years ago as as ‘15th century technology’ — is roaring back. Waterstones has proclaimed the printed word the future, saying demand for eReaders, such as Amazon Kindle, has vanished.