Books are dead!

 My professor argues that books are dead, because we as a digital age have turned to pdf file versions of books. Instead of buying a hard cover book that takes up space both on our shelves and in our possession anywhere we go.  We prefer to have everything we want at our disposal, which includes books. We are also a generation of excess to the point that even though our family size has gotten smaller, our homes have gotten bigger to the point that we are now also a generation of storage renting for all our stuff. Now, with the portable electronic devices we can purchase and carry all our virtual books, documents and notes with us everywhere we go, without having the extra bulk to carry. One commercial puts it better, where the guy is reading from his tablet a newly released book and a lady is carrying a heavy bag that held all the books she was reading, and it made it logical at the end of the 30 second commercial that even though you couldn’t physically fold the page of a book you are reading it was a lot more convenient to carry and read of the tablet with less hassle.