[trebb]

Convenient supplies of tinder for when the government throws us back to the stone age?

[buckalfa]

How about speculation tht B&N stock will sell at a premium when the company is eventually bought out?

[Dr. Sivana]

They almost certainly got a bounce by losing hundreds of competing Borders.

[Arm_Bears]

My oldest son was participating in the B&N management training program through his college bookstore. He left because they wanted him to work without pay—the entire company being on financial life support.

[SamAdams76]

I was late to the eBook party but since I got my first Kindle at Christmas, I've tripled my reading. It is so much more convenient reading books this way. Also, you can sync your library to all your other devices. For instance, I have a Kindle app on my phone so when I'm stuck in line somewhere, I can get some reading done as everything is synced to the latest page read.

I used to say I would only read books printed on paper, but now it's the other way around.

Probably the best part of all is that I got to ditch my reading glasses. With eBooks, you just make the fonts bigger.

[ken5050]

Or, the alternative point of view:

What brands won't make it to 2014

Nook ranks just behind JC Penney..which is toast

[Kirkwood]

Books aren’t dead. There are more books in print now than ever before. People just buy them online instead of at a local bookstore.

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course books are dead.Today's graduates can't even read their own diplomas but their self esteem,thank God,is *sky* high.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Barnes & Noble stock is up so much because some Congresscritters were told to buy some by somebody. It's a stock no one else would touch (I tried to short it due to the financials and took a loss months ago). Go figure.

[Terry L Smith]

Those of you who find an electronic reading screen more adaptable to your personal style, that is all right with me. Why?

I own a small growing collection of, at present, 300 books. That’s right, books. I have a ‘reading schedule’ that I keep, mentally, so that when I am not ‘out of stuff to read’. When I finish five books, I find another two to purchase for the shelf. I can list reference, cooking, mystery, history, fiction, western, sports, politics, and self-improvement.

I look at books, the way some of the previous generation of writers looked at their typewriters. “I press the key for an ‘s’, and there it is on the paper. I put it there, directly.” I am a published writer, in the times when manual typewriters (”What the heck is that?), ‘electronic word processors’, and now, in the twilight age of laptop computers, have come to be and moved on. I like the feel of the printed word. When I read, I see it, my eyes read it, my mind creates the written environment and characters of the printed page.

I suppose, to me, the book is the original ‘laptop environmental and characterization generator, version 1.0’.

I need no batteries to recharge my ‘reader’, either.

[what's up]

I've got my Kindle which I use a lot. Great to toss in my bag everyday for the times when I'm out, bored, and can use the time to browse my kindle selections. I've got about 13 pages of free ebooks. Lots of good devotional reading.

But I find most of the Kindle stuff I choose is free. If I spend money on books, I still like to buy a hard copy book. Love my local used book store. I was depressed when our Borders shut down. I have several hundred books and don't think I will ever get rid of them.