I have capitulated.
I have decided to give e-books a chance for several reasons:
1. I have been moving again and packing up more than two decades of accumulated books is no joke (ask the haulers).
2. I have tried out a colleague's Kindle and I was amazed at how light it was, how similar in size to a regular pocketbook, and how its resolution is so close to that of a paper-printed page.
3. (I think) it could cut down my book expense. Most classics are now downloadable and new writers are striking it out in the web waiting for publishers to get to them.
4. I don't need to wait for the local bookstores to come out with the works of my favorite authors (I never attempted to take that marshmallow test; I already know the result).
5. I can still read in bed.
6. My entire library can fit in my purse.
7. I need to be prepared for the Little Pebble. I have observed that more and more schools are now using tablets in lieu of textbooks. I wouldn't want my child to classify me together with the dinosaurs nor include me in discussions of Darwin's survival of the species or the Big Bang theory.
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