I wouldn't trade my Kindle for a new pickup truck. It's an amazingly convenient device. I can now carry 60 reference books in my case in addition to a couple dozen more books on topics I am interested in.
I'm really sorry that offends you, but physical books take up an enormous amount of space.
When I moved from Georgia to Pennsylvania, I took all of my old reference books (DOS, Windows 3.1, C Language, et al) to a dump. There were 2400 pounds of them.
Additionally, there are a lot of struggling authors who are self-publishing on Amazon who give away their work. Some of them are rated really well. That author might actually have a chance to get published next time.
Embrace the future.
I know I had to when they started shipping jobs offshore to 'virtual' employees.
Guess I'm the Luddite here, but everyday some thing that is real and true is lost and I have no interest in being a "virtual' anything.
It trips us up, this "convenience". I guess I see this as a metaphore for our disappearing humanity, the coursening continues apace.
Its not the Kindle itself, per se, perhaps its the over-abundance, the too convenient that troubles me. Maybe somethings shouldn't be convenient, perhaps there's a value in difficulty. When everything is ready to hand why bother reaching out for anything?
We now have commercials on TV advising children to go outside and play. Let me repeat; We now have commercials on TV advising children to go outside and play.
Look outside.........
Where are the children?