NMR: Chapters 41-54: The Kindle

As an avid Oprah show viewer, I am always interested in the things she dubs as her "new favorite product."  This year, Oprah excitedly introduced the Kindle, Amazon.com's "revolutionary wireless reading device," which allows you to purchase books digitally and read them on a small six inch screen.  It is said to "look and read like real paper," whatever that may mean, and is being used by authors like Toni Morrison and Anita Diamant among others.  

This seemed very relevant to the chapter in the text regarding the end of books, the death of one of the oldest forms of media:  the printed word.  To me, the Kindle does not offer a user-friendly, more efficient way to read, but a move to destroy books as we know them today.  What does it say about our culture when we have to have everything digitalized and why do so many people consider things easier, or more efficient simply because it is computerized, or smaller?