eBooks, Not For Me - Yet

I'm seeing more and more people reading eBooks when I'm out and about. Still print books dominate, but time is changing, and I have been notoriously slow to change with it.

It took me several years, for example, to buy myself a cell phone. I finally did, and then wondered how I got along without one. But eBooks? As was the case with cell phones, I'm not quick to get one. At least, not yet.

I admit eBooks are the future. I was even introduced to digital reading back in 1999. That's when parents of a student gave me a gift at the end of the school year. It was a gift that I didn't understand at first, because it was digital copies of three books. H. G. Wells was one of my favorite authors and I had required my class to read the book, The War of the Worlds.

So I received as an end-of-the-year gift digital copies of The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine. It was certainly new to me. I remember downloading them onto my work computer, too. But I don't work there anymore, and I think I left the CD-Rom in that computer.

I did read part of one of the books there, but never got around to finishing it. Of course, there weren't any Nooks, or eReaders out yet. I wonder if they were compatible with the eReaders of today.

Not that it matters, I don't have an eReader, but sooner or later I will have to come aboard. Since my own books are soon-to-be released, and will be available as eBooks, it would behoove me to get one. Just don't know exactly when. One of the problems is that these things keep evolving. If you buy one now, then the next thing you know a cheaper and better one comes out.

It's what happens with just about everything electronic. And right now I'm in the market for a new TV. And TVs are another example of ever-improving technology. Sheesh, they're selling 3-D TVs now. Do you think I'll be buying one of those? Um, no. Like I said. I'm notoriously slow to jump on bandwagons. As for eBooks? Well, let's see what happens. TV first, eBook later.