Since I'll be in the car for six or seven hours Tuesday, I thought it might be nice to get home in the evening and find a raging discussion of the future of book publishing.

I confess that I'm a little jealous of people with Kindles and e-readers when I'm on an airplane. How great would it be to not have to tote books on every vacation? But when at home, there's nothing more wonderful than the feel of paper, the ink staining fingers, and the smell of a new book.

At the lunch before the Arkansas Inspirational Writers' meeting, the question was raised if regular

printed-paper books will be replaced by e-book readers in the near future. Seeing as how I predicted that print newspapers would be gone by the year 2000, I may not be the best person to answer this question-and journalists have been debating this topic for a few years now. Now the question over whether or not e-books will take over the publishing world is becoming more and more heated. — blogspot.com