iSad

It's not even close. The smell, feel and experience of reading and rereading a book is above and beyond the virtual alternative.

Dog ears and notes in the margins.. Returning again and again to yellowed warm pulped universes. Handing it down to generations or lending a favourite novel go friends. It's magic in my hands.

Then there is the iWorld.. Glass screens that never change while the words are flicked sideways by an overactive thumb..

IMHO kindle etc heralds the downfall of not only libraries but our society as a whole..