I love the smell of ink and paper too. But there are no bookstores within an hour drive of here now. I rely on amazon, and sure, they have it if it's in print. But then you wait a week for it.

How cool to be able to download a book in seconds form anywhere! And to enlarge the font for my not so good eyes, not have to struggle to hold the book open when my hands are weak.

They had 9,000 books when it first became available, and I think said they'd have over 100,000 titles soon, 250,000 within a year hopefully. That ought to hold anyone over.

And I have 10 tons of books laying around now.

Just another way to read, as I see it. And I love gadgets.