Yes, completely agree. They look ridiculous too, can't wait till I see the people at Starbucks with their iPads. Just get a damn book, they don't make them for nothing.

Ha ha! All very true, Urban, especially the part about the ornamental donkey!

I also would just rather look at print on a page in a book than on an electronic screen. I like actual books partly because they *are* low-tech.

I doubt a computer could simulate the dusty smell of an old book...kind of repellent but interesting...or one that has sat on the floor by the toilet too long, after condensation turns it a little yellow. (This happened to all my brother's Star Trek paperback books when I was a kid, so you read them at your own risk.) And if I were reading on vacation, I'd miss the wind fluttering the pages.

I can't wait to get my own ipad. My friend got one shipped over from America and I've played on it, it's fantastic!

Nothing compares to an actual book anyway. I tried reading trainspotting online because I was skint, but I just couldnt do it. So I made myself even more skint and forked out £7 for the actual book which i got into straight away.

My brother has one, I must admit they are pretty cool, but they don't have flash. The iPod on it is amazing though.

£7? I see Trainspotting in pretty much every charity shop i ever go into for £2 or less. Or you could have gone to the library. Silly Kayleigh.

I want to keep i'll get my moneys worth, plus I don't have any charity shops nearby, I'm 20miles away from the shopping centre! :O

I've agreed with you so far, but I've gotta disagree on this one. Though the tablets themselves may not be the greatest things ever, they are the start of something revolutionary. I think, in the relatively near future, as a natural progression of technology, all printed media will become digital. Just look at newpapers; they're all dying. People get their news from the internet now.

So while I agree that people shelling out $400 or whatever for the current iPads and whatnot are wasting their money, I do think that the tablets have a great future ahead of them.

I still buy 3 newspapers everyday :)

Books are a cheaper option, more available, don't get bugs, more robust, easier to store and don't need a battery to be recharged.

I think the biggest fallacy is that technology will replace everything.