OK as a mom. I have to give it to scoobysnaxx, he's right.

I am sick and tired of "I want that iPod!!"

"Yeah well I just got you a new one for you and your 2 brothers!"

"Well mom that one is OLD!"

"I want that computer!"

"Why?"

"Ours is OLD"

"I want that bookreader!"

"EH A WHAT?"

"It's an iPod with books so you don't have to go to a library, books are dumb all the cool kids have those thingies!!"

"UMM OK and I'll be on Oprah next year, I can see it now, "The woman with the 500 pound kids. THEY NEVER HAD TO LEAVE THE HOUSE TO DO ANYTHING!!"

What is this?? Is now all income disposable?? Maybe for people with no kids, yeah life is great money everywhere, I was there once till responsibility set in.

For people who are rocket scientists with good jobs and kids it should only be so great too. I have a great job, BUT when it comes to money, heh there has to be a limit to this BIZARRO trend of people complaining they have no cash, yet as soon as they do, poof, 70" LCD tv.

But I mean there comes a point in my life where I am not going out and spending 300 per kid for each bookreader. NO WAY JOSE!! HELL I am a Mac addict fangirl, and I dumped them too for a cheaper PC.

The Mac Pro I wanted was just a bit astronomical, I mean I wanted it hooked up to the rafters, and the iMac wasn't user upgradable friendly. Hell Core i9 is coming my PC is now trash anyway.

Hey I gotta put it in here.

Technology is like friggin toilet paper. Here as fast as you can buy it and out the next day. Either down the toilet or in the trash can.

So taxes pay for libraries, but hey, free is what some of us tax payers see it as and a bookworm for a kid would be better then most who are plagiarists. Never knew you could just print up a book report these days till I caught my kid trying. WELL OK I had an idea.

And to that guy about kids that can't read, NOT OUR FAULT!! GREAT SHERLOCK!! it's nobodys fault is it?? Sounds all too AMERICAN TO ME these days, as jobs and other stuff leave the USA cause whatever?? NO WAY!! It's our responsibility to teach the kids to do right what we did wrong. Sorry for the fact that it seems any one here is like a fan boy or girl of ANYTHING tech anymore.

Hell I just had a new TV last year and my kids want a bigger one?? Like 5000 isn't good enough?

I know this will get me bashed here cause I am ranting, but seriously I think my parents were right....give the kids the world and they will grow up and just think it's all Free :-/

I have a good job and a good life and live well, I just think there comes a point in life where people have to say HOW LAZY ARE WE???

Tech is all about faster and easier...hmmm while America gets fatter and fatter and dumber and dumber. COINCIDENCE????

I happen to believe in these devices - I own the Kindle. As someone who travels 95% of the time for work the convenience of these devices is outstanding. I rarely have access to a library, and dragging around paper books is a pain - I go through 2 or 3 books a week during a single trip - if I had to carry around these books I wouldn't have room for my workout clothes. Anytime I need a new book I just turn on the wireless - browse the store - bam - book received.

I see many of my fellow road warriors reading from these - by the way I also get 2 newspapers delivered daily, and 2 magazines as well - all on the same device with my books.

I love my Kindle - purchased March of this year and don't expect to need an "upgrade" anytime soon.

Obviously scoobysnaxxnj you have no clue how libraries are funded.

Your juvenile rantings lead me to believe the last book you picked up was
a "d*** & Jane" reader.

I have read dozens of books from my own library numerous times. Sorry
to hear that your attention span limits you to one time only.

Obviously in this world of children who can't read and their parents who have no time to teach them right or wrong.....the NOOK...E-Book, or whatever all the companies that make these will call them. Mommy??....What's a LIBRARY......?"

"OMG!! Jane never say that dirty word!!"

A library is free. DUH your taxes pay for it. BUT then again since all technology is now DISPOSABLE..every 5, er 4 er...3 er...2 months WHO CARES!

"I want that hot top on the market Intel i7 975 EXTREME EDITION!!"

By April the same "kid" or at this point "adult" will be begging for the newest AMD....ergh Intel Machine.

Wow is reading a paper book so dull I need a book reader now. NOT LIKE I EVER read the same book twice.

When's the last time you bought a book and read it twice??

Hmmm..... LIBRARY=FREE

"A library is free. DUH your taxes pay for it."

So...it's free...but you pay for it?

Oh, wait...it's free as in "Social Healthcare"...

"When's the last time you bought a book and read it twice??"

DragonLance, Forgotten Realms, Battlefield Earth, and more recently, MoonSeed, Foreign and Domestic, The Last of the Olympians series, and the Outlander series. In fact, I've read most of the books I own several times...and I will *never* buy an e-book reader.

"Hmmm..... LIBRARY=FREE"

...only f you don't pay taxes.

"DragonLance"

Amen to that! ;)

scoobysnaxxnj,
We understand the good intentions of your post but some of us believe it is outdated thinking. Here are some things to consider.

Do you really believe by stopping the advancement of e-readers you'd solve the issue of kids who can't read to be able to read? I don't even need to bring up the difference between teaching them between right and wrong. If these were the case then they never would have been a problem which is clearly not true. Don't blame newer technology for what parents aren't doing with their kids in the first place. These are tools to help solve these issues not create them. As a parent, it is my responsibility to find a way to teach my kid to read. I intend to use every tool (including schools and libraries) available to me and not rely on others to teach my kids to read and educate them on topics they'd never be exposed to in the educational system.

If libraries close and become obsolete due to these "solutions" it will be their own fault for not keeping up with technology. This won't happen due all the advantages of the "e-reading". People don't go to libraries because they are inconvenient. The same reasons people are being guided away form movie rental stores. Why would I want to drive to the library to find out what I'm interested in is not available. Why would i want to carry multiple books as compared to one 10 oz. or less device. Can anyone carry 1500 books or even want to? Why would I not want to be able to search the content? Why wouldn't i want to save all the trees from being processed into paper that will just be thrown away? Why wouldn't I want a device to read to me while i do other tasks. Why wouldn't I want subscriptions to be pushed to me? These are all options not being forced on anyone.

Libraries shouldn't be book rental delivery buildings. They should be (and are) information and content delivery systems. They need to be efficient in their delivery method and frugal with the costs associated to them. The cost savings and other benefits should benefit the libraries and their customers. With these in mind, how would you make a few copies of a book available to a hundred-thousand people, one million people, 330 million people, 6.6 billion people? Pretty confident you wouldn't choose printing and shipping this many books. If you did, consider how many trees and how much gasoline you would use. How many people will be hurt or killed in the logging industry?

With all this in mind, I still prefer books and probably always will. Books aren't going away but we shouldn't hinder newer methods. We can and will have both for a very long time. Longer than I, my kids and their kids will be around. These technologies are tools that can help solve some issues with hard/printed copies, not replacements for them.

I really like your post. And agree with it. Things are going electronic because it is saving the environment. Its saving trees. It is saving a number of things.

There are somethings I like having as a electronic book. I like playing RPGs like D&D looking up information on that I much prefer my old fasion books over the electronic.

And as you see in the TV shows like Star Trek. There will ALWAYS be people who prefer actually holding that book in their hands.

Weight, space, and convience of having an electronic reader will win out in many cases.