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There are so many reasons that Kindle is 'the future'. I am 59 years old and have been an avid reader since...well, since I learned to read at age 5!
My problem is, I an incapable of throwing out a book (well, with some exceptions. As I recall, I didn't just throw out 'Dhalgren', I burned it...but that's another story) . My house has books in every closet, every room, piled up on the floor, in shelves on the walls of the basement. My books runneth over!!!!
My ebooks, however, take up some space on a portable USB hard drive that I store in my desk. And if a new book comes out in a favorite series, and I want to re-read earlier books, I don't have to search high and low for them. They're all here on that hard drive!
Until the DX arrived, there was a trade-off, being the need to read on that small screen. Now, however, everything I read is on a page the size of a trade paperback or hardcover!
There are two things that need to happen, IMHO, before Kindle (or other readers) will really take over the book market...first, obviously, the price needs to drop. Those of us who bought the DX shelled out 500 bucks and especially now, that's a lotta cash to drop on a gadget...
Second, these guys need to be made a lot sturdier. My brother bought a reader on my recommendation and it broke after a month...admittedly, he had tossed it in a backpack which got thrown into the back of a cab, and before he could stop the driver, his heavy briefcase landed on top of it. He had it in a cover, but hey, nothing is invulnerable...though a paper book comes pretty close. College students are going to be absolute death on these glass screens.
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