Read a Book

It kinda sucks that all the book stores are closing, especially since it seems a bit premature. Sure, I think we all know that they're going to be completely dead at some point, probably within the next twenty years, but I thought e-books would become a bit more prominent before it started happening. At the moment, they're still kind of a fringe market. Sure, you hear about them all the time, but how many people do you know that actually read them on a regular basis? The market is there, sure, and I quite like e-books, so I'm all for it,* but it seems like we're not quite there yet. And yet, the book stores are all closing. That sucks. Books are alright too.

Of course, we all know the real reason. I think it was about ten years ago when people realized that hey, you can totally just read a whole book right there in the store. It's practically encouraged! They have those arm chairs, and they never kick you out, even if you stay there for five hours and don't buy anything. They're digging their own grave with that stuff. Especially since a lot of them started selling coffee. And having free Wi-Fi. I know kids who go into the book store, take a cram book off the shelf, study, put it back, and leave. That's gotta be killing them.

And well, yeah, there's also the fact that other forms of entertainment are totally destroying literature at this point, especially the internet. But that's too depressing for me.

*It's not the same as reading an actual book, sure, but those things are just too damn cheap. If you ever start to get worked up over the death of the written word, just remember how damn expensive new release hardbacks were.