Curl Up With A Good Kindle

So maybe for a girl just out of her teens I'm being horrendously old school when I cringe everytime I hear the word - Kindle. *Yikes! Shudder!*
But I honestly canNOT stand to hear that word, something that in my opinion is doing to the Romance of Reading Books what Vegas did to the Institution of Holy Matrimony!
Thankfully in my beloved third world country with its slimy politicians and weird sense of fashion, the ebook reader has not landed with a bang. In fact, only the above mentioned slimy politicians could actually afford the piece of impeccable art that is the iPad. *oooh! Clap! Clap!* But elsewhere in the world, the ebook reader has created a monster! Everyone reads now, not just the dorky kids in primary school, huddling behind a book because they don't have the guts to go and give those bullies a piece of their minds - sez me, who didn't have the friggin' guts either!
That's a good thing right? After all, with so many books being published, your grandmother's fifteen-year-old poodle believes it's depriving the world of something amazing if it doesn't write it's memoir - "I eat, I walk, I excited, I poo..." Sure, it is a brilliant thing - not the poodle memoir but the everyone-reading-books thing - because the world lacks educated people who can think out of the damned box and reading educates and broadens scopes and yes, your English teacher was right when she said it makes you a better person! I should know, I've been the 'hid-behind-novel-type,' meself!
But is the Kindle and all other ebook formats killing the book?
In my honest opinion, yes it is!
Why? Well, sure it's got all those amazing benefits - morons+kindle =better world! As the ebook readers become more accessible and cheaper, everyone has a chance to get their grubby paws on one, even me, the college-deprived. It's lightweight, compact, minimalistic. You don't have to be Einstein's offspring to figure it out and the best part? Wait for it... The best part is that you can carry up to a full geebee of data in one of them thingys! That's like a ton of books man! If you had to carry that in paperback, you'd probably pull you back!
So that's it huh? Who knew that people took a ton of books with them when they went on vacation! What did you buy the expensive getaway for? A good read? Stay at home then, and send the money to Libya or Japan if you feeling so rich!
Even if you could boast carrying 500 books around with you in Maui, I bet you'd probably read one or two, or not even that if you meet cute beach boy in the thereabouts of the ocean! So why bother with a Kindle? Carry a paperback instead.
The ebook is here though, whatever I say, my sarcasm can't bury the fact. And it's here to stay! Whether it kills the publishing of regular, real books is not up to the public but the publishing industry.
I recently bought a hardback for two biggies which is a lot of money in my ol' nation. Why did I do that? Because I'm a bookworm and I couldn't wait eons for the paperback. There are totally ninnies who go gaga over books just like me, but we are a dying breed. The new, savvy readers will just download the book onto their electronic device and boom!
Publishers aren't helping with the killer prices on the hardbacks either. I'm not an authority on this now, -heck! I'm not even qualified to blabber here - but I think maybe when something is friggin' expensive, people tend to gravitate towards something cheap?
I really hope though, for the sake of me and the rest of the literary romantics, they will do something about it, or by the time I'm ancient and old (like thirty FIVE?!) I would have no choice but to swallow my qualms and curl up with a good Kindle!