The great curse of book lovers, that. I look forward to the day when I can travel without a second suitcase of books, or don't have to ship a crateful of new books home on vacation. Of course nothing can quite replace the heft of a new bag of books, or washing the ink smudges off whatever fingers you use to hold the inside of a book after reading a good ol' cheap paperback in one sitting.

I wonder if books will ever be sold with a code that can be redeemed to get the same thing as an ebook? Convenient as the reader would be, I'd hate to have to buy both, and there's something about a real, concrete book that just can't be captured on a screen.