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Has anyone else besides me seen the cover of the most recent New Yorker? If not I will attempt to show you:

This is the life of a book. Actually, I feel like they are trying to tell me that this is soon to be the story of my life. Me, specifically, of course. (In case you can't tell what the last pic is, there are two hobos burning the book for warmth. Yah.)

Not that I've written anything of note lately. But I could become any of those people on the top row: writer, agent, or editor. And for what? The book's just going to end up in a trash can somewhere.

Unless..... unless something can be done about this whole, I don't read thing. Did you know that only 57% of adults in this country say they read a book in the past year (just one book!). That's ridiculous! (Says the girl who just spent several hours on Facebook updating iRead to include 70 something books and is right now restraining herself from adding more).

Anyway, in light of all this I found this article extremely interesting: http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983 and I know it's long but it's so intriguing! And possibly the reason for the New Yorker's cover, or at least having something to do with the death of the book.

Because that's what we're coming to, people. No more paper, no more moldy pages. Oh my God, what will this mean in terms of having to buy textbooks for school?? Needless to say, just because the first version of the Kindle is doing so well, that doesn't mean we'll be loosing the need for books anytime soon. But in the not so distant future, I think books will be a relic akin to vinyl records, and instead of the transitional medium of CDs, we'll have some magic device that contains all our books, magazines, music, Internet, and God knows what else in one handy dandy contraption. I personally can't wait.