E-books not a good read yet, says SF Chronicle

Henry Norr writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about e-books. His verdict: Won\’t it be wonderful when all our books are e-books? But for now, Norr writes, there are obstacles. Electronic, reusable paper with a programmable substrate of ink will be e-books\’ salvation, he says, but not for a decade or so.


The fundamental issue is purely pragmatic: After centuries of evolution not only in paper production and printing but also in design, we\’ve arrived at paper-based forms that are supremely well adapted to the task of displaying information.