I would have to agree. I think that's what I was saying, though: that beautiful books, the hard-bound books with a lot of craftsmanship in them, will continue. I have no doubt about that.
I was thinking more in terms of two situations. One might be the easy read, in a sense. If you're on a plane trip or a vacation or something like that, you can bring along 100 novels or more, if you want to, on one of those e-readers. I don't know how many you could actually get in there.
I did an experiment the other day. My mother is 81, and I went trundling in with one very large book and an e-reader. I said, “Mom, what do you think?” She spent some time flipping through both, and her answer was, “Well, dear, I like the book. This thing is interesting and it has its place, but it doesn't bend.”
Some of us are wedded. It's a cultural thing. The book is a cultural item. The way it works is as a cultural item. Many of us of a certain age are certainly wedded to it. I have also seen statistics, which unfortunately I don't have here, saying that for doing a lot of their research, university students still prefer paper books, but I don't know where that came from.