I like to read in the bath. I have on occasion fucked up a paperback book when it's dropped in the water: no matter that's a fiver's worth of book...

What spooks me about digital books is reliability. When I have a traditional book that is my book; what is in that book can not be changed, and if someone whats to deprive me of my book they must psychically and forcefully take my book from me. Ebooks I don't see that same security with these net based E-books. For example what happened with,ironically, Orwell's 1984 when it was redacted due to a loss of copyright from Amazon. This was a legitimate reason to pull the book but it shows the power over information that could be welded if traditional books were not around any more.

I like the whole tactile thing about books.

I like the whole tacky thing about books. Jackie Collins rules!

The whole tactile thing about books ends abruptly when you have 3 or more of them to carry, or several hundred to move and shelve. The Kindle weighs 10.2 ounces.

Two or three I can handle. Several hundred?

Imagine someone asking to borrow a book from your library and you hand them your Kendel.

Fuckers never return my books anyway. Or they spill an entire jar of salsa on them and then never replace them. Let them buy their own damn digital copies of books.

Yeah I have several hundred books here, and I last moved them in 1994, and I do not look forward to moving them again.

Not just another gadget to you then. wow

I could look this up but I am assuming you can scan pages, upload to the Kindel and take them with you. Especially tech books ect would make it very handy.

You do not read Jackie Collins! I don't so I am sure you don't either.