First, the bookstores die, then the libraries abandon books. Some child alive today will be a life-long avid reader who never holds a paper book.

I’m reading A Game of Thrones as an e-book. For the most part, I like e-books, especially for highlighting, note-taking, and searching. I miss knowing instantly and physically where I am in the book. 

A couple of my books are available for Kindle; most are not. peace, mjh.

San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library by Eric Limer

Books, who needs ’em? Libraries? Not anymore they don’t. The first public, bookless library is coming to San Antonio soon and, possibly, to a (dystopic?) future near you.

The new book-free library, called "BiblioTech," is intended to open in the fall and is part of a an entire bookless public library system planned for the entire county of Bexar. And it’s not "bring your own device" either. The library will actually lend out e-readers (of an unspecified brand) for two weeks at a time. There will also be computers and the like, but no books, and presumably no card catalog (!) either.

San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library