There's been lots of hype in the news about e-book readers. Amazon's Kindle... Chapters' Kobo... Sony has one too... They look awfully slick... And I know that you can store all sorts of books on them... In Cahpters, you can even download e-titles to your laptop or smartphone... Now, I don't know about you, but there's something with the e-books that I'm just not warming to... I get the convenience of them. I get that I could have 1000's of books in a little devie the size of a slim paperback... And yet... There's something warm and fuzzy about a "real" book... There's something comforting about curling up with a paper book, in a nice comfy armchair... Maybe I just need to try an e-reader to test it out but... I'm not sure... I guess I'm a bit skeptical that it can match the pleasures of a real book... I know that libraries nowadays have e-books for loan... You get it for three weeks and then it will self-delete from your e-reader... Sounds pretty simple... And it would definitely make moving a lot easier!!! No boxes and boxes of books to haul around. But then too... there's something nifty and nice about standing in front of a bookshelf and idly flipping through books before settling on one...
Maybe... maybe not... I'm not sold on e-readers... My sister has one and loves it to pieces but... Sigh... maybe I need to try one out for a while... I wonder though if e-books will ever supplant real books... it would save a lot of trees for sure... hmmmm....
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