The End of Reading?
Kindle, the portable electronic reader from Amazon, was launched last year to much fanfare. Inevitably, predictions of the demise of the printed book soon followed. In this essay from the most recent issue of EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen considers what the e-book means for the future of reading, and asks: What is lost in the switch from paper to pixel? Is "digital literacy" really literacy at all? Instead of "People of the Book," are we becoming "People of the Screen"?
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...e-of-the-screen

Reading the printed word on a felled tree is the turn off.
I love reading and I love books but I need a compromise.
I like to pre order what I really want or buy used books.

Reading will remain alive, I like to go on line to the library and download audio or books on line.
What is worrisome is hard the printing practices of different publishers.

I do on line catalog's ( saving trees) I do on line news letters and News papers accept Sunday( my Sunday paper is my Sunday).

The love of a good book should be passed on but how do we find a middle road?

1. How can it be the end of reading when they are selling you electronic books? Maybe the end of printed material.

2. I think Kindle will be a colossal flop, except perhaps for air travelers who want to pack 600 novels in their carry-on bags.

actually, i would love to downsize my stacks, BUT what will i do if the darn thing breaks or batteries die? naah, i think i'll stay true to print. can read it in candlelight and after dropping it into tub - even if doublesized