Reply #321: No, it's because 40 million Americans are functionally illiterate.

[Grinchie]

And another 40 million lack fundamental comprehension when they read.

That is evident even here, where I would say we have some mighty inteligent people posting, but their still is a high majority of people that cannot think or comprehend.

Your digital camera analogy is all fine and good, but you fail to acknowledge that they are only good while the battery lasts. They are utterlt useless on extended trips into the back country.

They are convenient, but if the infrastructure is not present to process the data, you are stuck with nothing more than a chunk of fancy silicon.

Anyway, this is not an argument about Digital Photography or eBooks. It's about Libraries that will continue to be important no matter what. We can have Both. We deserve both. With the Trillions we spend on an uneccessary Military, we must have both.

History has shown time and time again that Fascist Governments love to burn books. They know they can't burn books without sxposing their fraud, so they'll just make books harder to get at. Until we have free energy, that is clean, and limitless, I will never submit to the eBook model. It's just too east to disrupt.