[gmw]

One problem of participating on online forums is that the membership is skewed to those that use computers on a regular basis. You read on here about people that no longer read pbooks and think pbooks must be dead. But there is a big wide world out there that still includes many people that don't use computers every day, and even if they do, still don't read books off them. My own preference remains pbooks (showing my age?); if I find anything I really like as an ebook I look for it as a pbook to add to my collection.

That ebooks have jumped quickly in a fairly short time only shows a maturing product that is now reaching those people that are inclined to use it. It may even encourage more people to the available technology, but it's not automatically going to make everyone go out and buy a computer just so they can ditch their pbook library.

I think pdurrant's guestimates seem reasonable - I was going to suggest a generation. I think that is what it will take for pbooks fade to objects for collectors and eccentrics.

ETA: By "computer" I mean any of the modern devices on which we read ebooks.