Can you imagine a world of cafes and vintage stores who sell books!  Where people have prized collections of novels and collect the now ‘vintage’ book.  One day people will collect books like they collect vinyl.  Where having a bookshelf full of books will be like having a record player and a pile of records.  Granted the lecture this week was not highlighting that this was coming any time soon, the technology of e-readers is not yet good enough to compel people to ditch the books.  I think that people still like the feel of books, still like being able to turn the page and be able to highlight and write on the page.   So although maybe one day books maybe classified as ‘vintage’ I think that day is a long way away.