Digital seduction

To e-read or not to e-read? That's no longer the question. Whether or not you embrace them, e-readers and e-books are here to stay, and now the question for many is to Kindle or to iPad? Or perhaps to Nook ? Jacob Lambert looks at the inevitable transition to e-readers for those of us who love our scruffy old tangible books but don't want to be like the CD stalwarts in a world of MP3's.

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So here is the dilemma: you love your books, with their meaning and their warmth, but you’re not some weepy sap.  You find romance in the object, yet none in being an outlier, unreasonably clinging to relics.  Do you get on the boat—with its gorgeous women and glare-free screens—or ignore it and hold on?  Had I asked myself this question around the time of my Tower trip, I would have flared out my response: I’ll never switch, you Logan’s Run drone.  Books are too vital to trade for some overmarketed whim.