I buy hardback books, mostly (used - Amazon). The printed screen isn’t the same experience.
That said, I can see other folks opinions of a book at Amazon, and if I buy it new, it arrives in 2 days. Why would I go to Borders?
“Why would I go to Borders?”
To watch all the old hippies reading books that they’ll never buy while they socialize in a pleasant, free atmoshpere, but never buy anything?
I'm only 27 and like you said, the printed screen isn't the same experience. So who's buying and actually using all those e-readers. Honestly, this pace of technological change is surprising. If you asked me two or three years ago, I would had thought that Borders and the like would have been able to survive for at least another decade. Maybe two.
Amen. When I'm done I donate them to the senior center.