The written word

It was a quiet, breezy and amazingly warm day here today.  I was catching up on household tasks and mostly curled up and reading.  There are so many books I want to read!  I wish publishers would just stop the presses for a decade or two so I could catch up.

Speaking of which, we had two independent bookstores in our community until just a few months ago when one closed.  People read here and book groups are popular so the loss isn't about disinterest, it's about folks who shop online or have shifted to e-readers.  I'm guilty of both.

It's frustrating.  I love good bookstores - and the one that remains is a good one - but the difference in cost from full price to e-reader is significant.  I certainly don't see any reversal in that trend, do you?