Bookworm. You know the type. The person who never finds herself without adequate reading material. The person who belongs to several different book clubs. The person who makes a weekly trip to the public library as if it is Dillons. But wait, what about a Kindle? Or the iPad? At one point in recent history, sending and receiving messages electronically was a foreign notion; yet emailing is now as common as drinking coffee in the morning. Will eReading soon reach that status?
Instead of thumbing through the book club’s monthly pamphlet and/or taking the aforementioned weekly trips to the public library, people have been using gadgets like “eReaders,” which have been on the market for just over three years. Electronic books offer readers unparalleled convenience and accessibility to books. Despite the sentimentality of a “real” book, scores of people have happily embraced mobile reading devices for precisely the two attributes above: convenience and accessibility. Scott Stein, a senior associate editor of CNET, regarding eBook reading proclaims, “I’m a writer, and a lover of fiction, but I say bring it on.”
