The inevitable end of printed media

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Literature, newspapers, textbooks, and media of that sort are just begging for the digital age and I imagine if they're ever offered in printed form in the future, it'll be a niche thing.

Textbooks are the one thing I can see having a hard time making this jump. While I do use books.google a bit, generally if I'm going to do any sort of serious reading I head over to the library to pick up a copy. it's also more convenient since I can spread out 3-4 books on my desk and it only costs me the price of the book. With e-readers I'd need to have 3+ e-readers all loaded up with the stuff I want and being sure not to accidentally drop them on the floor since they're so much more fragile than a real book.

I'm cool with things like academic journals going all electric since nobody really reads them cover to cover, and it's a lot more efficient (economically and ecologically) to just print out the handful of pages you want to read.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

A number of colleges are converting to "ebook campuses" or something of the sort. The problem is, instead of actually buying the book, you're leasing an electronic copy of the book. So maybe you save 25% off of the price of a physical book, but you're only getting it for the length of your semester. For those of us in fields where topics build upon each other this is a nightmare.

There's nowhere I can't reach.