Good old Charlie Booker! "Binary turd" is a great description of iTunes. Unless you have Senuti software, there's no way of retrieving your music from an iPod and putting it back on your (say) Apple Mac Book. Senuti is a convenient way of transferring from iPod to Mac - but why can't iTunes simply allow it in the first place?

Anyway, CDs and vinyl are still being produced and are still playable. Books are being printed in greater quantities than ever (in the UK, at any rate) and the jolly old Kindle is also taking off. I shall buy a Kindle when I can take it into a charity shop and upload a s/h book for 50p... Mind you, if you're on holiday in some exotic place for a fortnight or so, I suppose a Kindle saves weight.