I'm sure that 100 years ago people would have thought that if we had the amount of technology that we do, we'd be a much more intelligent, informed society. There are a lot of things that would prove otherwise. I'm curious why people prefer books on devices. The only real benefits of books on devices are being able to read in the dark, and saving space. Neither of these are huge concerns most of the time. I find that I never finish a book if it's on my computer, but I almost always do if it's sitting at my bedside.One survey I wrote about a year ago posited that 40% of the people who buy books online looked at them in a bookstore first.
This part caught me off guard. That is an insanely high percentage considering the extra effort all of those people go through to both go to the book store, and then go home to buy it online.