Reading all of this is scarry! Having to associate or assign a computer to a reader is bad.

How are we going to promote readers to non computer associated people?
The reader has to go out there and
be popular or it will die. There is not a big reading public as it is, do we really have to make it so complicated? We're geekier than most, the computer is like a pair of shoes to us, but most people out there consider it to be an expensive complicated toy that would have a better use in a library as a bookstand!
What are we to do?