Books, like Paris Hilton, will never go out of STYLE

I think people cherish real paper or hard back books to much to want a change. That doesnt mean that technology will attempt to create the new wave of book reading.

I can imaging that book will come in small CD form that you can put into what maybe would look like a childs gameboy. So that you put in the cd, and you can read from a small screen roughly the size of a small book.

Like discusses in class, the best part of reading a book is the availability to read it anywhere...in bed, in the park, and on the bus. The ability for books to travle easily is a luxury. This may seem to be the next step while creating of selling a newer form of books on electronic viewers.

What would happen to all the books we have now? Would they remain a fashion? We all know that when someone has a large collection of books and they are in a book shelf in the living room....one comments "wow you have a lot of books." Books may become just a fashion statement.

What will happen in classrooms? How can we bring our texts to class if they are not in book form? How will students highlight the info, write in the margins, and carry it easily? Would electronic books create even more disturbance in class?

I hope books will stay as paper books. The very essence of a book is its availablilty. You can read it in bed, on a bus, in the park. You can bring it anywhere, thats the best part about it. A book is a book, not a gameboy type toy that will spit out the words resembling a book. It is the cover of a book that sometimes capitvates us to buy it.
Without books, there would be no fun in enjoying the text.

If I ever decide to have children and they decide to have children...then it would be an honor to pass down the begining of my book collection. To pass down the books that influenced me and my peers, and the books, like King and Poe, will never go out of style just like Paris Hilton.