Reply #15: I hope you're right

[RainDog]

but there's a BIG push now to make people think that e-books are the shit.

I was constantly spammed by amazon over xmas shopping season to buy a kindle. they sold e-books at a loss to get people to use the kindle platform...then claimed they had sold more e-books than books, iirc.

but e-books only make up 10% of the market at this time. but... think about how quickly things have changed for blockbuster, etc. compared to netfliks. the two are the same thing, but not. same with watching tv on tv v computer. I watch most tv on computer these days. I'll go weeks w/o turning on the tv.

and there are pros to using a reader - like so many titles in a small space.

e-books are what have publishers and distributors panties in a wad at this point in life. who knows, kindle may be the betamax of readers... Sony.. gasp...

I'm not an early adopter.

I didn't even own a microwave until I inherited one in the mid-1990s. I was fine using my gas stove. I still love my gas stove. it can do things a microwave can't. but I like to use the microwave to heat up stuff. when my microwave breaks, however, I don't think I'll replace it. it's not essential to me. it's not what cooking is about, to me.