Reply #2: I feel the same way about my books and agree with you that Kindles can't hold a candle to them [View All]

[BurtWorm]

in terms of the sensual experience of reading them. (Although, to be fair, I haven't actually read with a Kindle, and should, therefore say they *probably* can't hold a candle to them.)

But this may be out of our hands (so to speak). The process of making books has become so expensive and wasteful, as Bernstein points out. There's almost no excuse for the way they're produced given the choice to make texts less costly to publish via electronics--at least those are surely the lines along which publishers must be thinking these days.

It pains my heart to think books might go the way of vinyl records. (Ouch!)