Strange Times for Books

"I shall always treasure my books, but I shall do so for antiquarian reasons alone.  I am at the same time tremendously excited, as a reader and learner, by the possibility of someday soon being able to carry the equivalent of the Library of Congress in the palm of my hand.  That will be the realization of humanity's dream since the inception of discovery hundreds of thousands of years ago."

Thus spake the headmaster of the $42,850 a year Cushing Academy in Massachusetts, as he announced the s...