And no, I don't want to pay 25 cents extra for a license to print it out. Bob connects wirelessly to the Internet, pays for the book and downloads a copy for your perusal.
Nobody knows for sure.
But experts do agree that e-books are here to stay and may some day become more popular than printed books. In the morning, you'll download the New York Times and The Sacramento Bee and the first three chapters of the latest Stephen King Jr. novel. All the pieces to do it are already there. Well, sort of. A trip to the local CompUSA store reveals several kinds of voice recognition software.