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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5044473" data-attributes="member: 19675">Pleasure reading is becoming more and more concentrated online and in periodicals.  IOW, not actual books.There are many reasons why more and more brick & mortar bookstores are diversifying their stock away from books, and declining book sales are one of them...something that, as a reader, bugs me.I mean, I may eventually get an e-reader- I'm looking at a Sony one right now- but I'd only be buying it for specific purposes.  For instance, my Mom is having more and more trouble with her eyes, and the Sony has the best magnification on the market- better than "large-type" books.  For me, it may be a way for me to deal with certain things like sheet-music, schematics, and (someday) certain RPG books.  Textbooks from CLE courses and grad-school programs would be another thing that might be better in pdf form than in hardcopy.But the moment a type of media moves to entirely electronic form is the moment I abandon it.  I dropped several gaming mags for doing that, and its looking like CDs may be next.If books go...</blockquote>