I'd wager that 3/4 of the books I read are not avaailable in e-format. It's not that I wouldn't read e-books--I haven't but I'm not opposed to it--but I have no intention of giving up real books for e-books.

Here's the thing: We get so enamored with a new technology that we eventually OD on it. Then we start to miss the old way and want to go back to it. Telephones are probably the only thing this will never happen with because cell phones and such are so convenient. But look at analog synths. People went nuts with the digital synths and suddenly rediscovered the coolness of analogs and now Buchla and Moog are suddenly back in business.

I don't think books will disappear anyway. Imagine going to a Latin mass and the choir singer are all holding tablets or pads. I have a Latin mass book--huge thing--that I bought many years ago for the hell of it, I'm not Catholic. But my bass instructor is a Polish Catholic boy and I lent it to him and he loves it. It wouldn't be the same scrolling through it on a tablet.

But if I can load up a number of books in e-format on a pad, I'm not averse to doing that. But real books are forever.