Books and reading

Read some interesting discussion--here and here--about books and reading in the last couple of days. What interests me most is how the physical-to-digital transformation of text is on one hand killing some forms of the book sales industry, and on the other is vastly re-shaping the way we approach text. One is being sacrificed for the other. And as sad as it is to see some bookstores phased out, it's rather exciting to live in an age where it is now necessary to analyze new environments and contexts for reading. Think about page-turning vs. scrolling; the places we can take text; the amount of text we can carry/have access to at one time; how we orient our physical selves to digital texts.