The Future is Kindle?

There's a debate about the Kindle versus the old-fashioned book going on in, among other places, the pages of the Writing Magazine. I really had to quote part of this letter from Tracy Cox of Herefordshire on the subject:
"They say the book is dying, a crusty old relic from a past time, but all you have to do is walk around somewhere like Hay-on-Wye where everywhere you turn there's a bookshop and everyone you see shares a love for the good old fashioned book, to realise that it simply isn't so. A town created from the written word, you can touch it, feel it, smell it and wander around in its glory.
The book is dead? I think not."