i hear you and felt that way until i got the Ipad and the Kindle app has made downloading books possible. i would not have ever gotten a kindle to just read books, but the multiplicity of function with an ipad is just fantastic. I can go from Words with Friends with Explorer89, to email, to FR, to twitter, to the book i am reading— all with one touch. And the immediate gratification of finishing one book and being able to immediately start another, is something i am loving too. Yes amazon will bring it next day, but amazon kindle books can be there in a NY minute. Also, i paid $57 for the Hunger Games Trilogy for my daughters to be able to read them in paper form, at B&N. i downloaded the trilogy to my ipad for $17.
Xxteen is firmly in the paper books, i want to hold them in my hand, camp. i think until you’ve experienced an ebook, that’s an understandable feeling. i had it myself.
I notice that you are typing i instead of I. Is that because you are using an Ipad?
Before I get into nooks and kindles and Ipads, I need someone to guide me through. Actually, we have a restaurant in the movie theatre where we often go. They LOAN Ipads to their patrons to play games. I’ve tried it with Angry Birds and I just can’t get into it. I just don’t feel right about sitting there playing a game while my 3 companions are talking. It feels rude. LOL (Even though all the kids are doing it.)
It sucks to be carrying a big book around once you’ve finished it. Especially in a backpack in an airport.
The multitasking with an iPad is good and bad. I was able to read the paperback Atlas Shrugged in about three days, but I find myself leaving my book to pop over to see what is happening on free republic a little too often :). Also, I need to learn how to ignore Words with Friends pings :)