More about the future of books and reading--

I did not listen to the entire "Charlotte Talks" program I mentioned just previously about the "digital age" and books but I don't believe the discussion reached vooks. A recent New York Times newspaper article described "vooks" as being a new innovation of the reading method with titles boosting the blending of text, video and Internet features. Click here for the entire article and related information.

This sort of hybrid book (as the Times aptly puts) may be the new panacea to draw readers as some book publishers hope. That is particularly the great expectation for younger people.

Writers, on the other hand, are mixed too. But mystery writer Walter Mosley said the practice has no appeal to him. He said, "Reading is one of the few experiences we have outside of relationships in which our cognitive abilities grow,” according to the novelist. “And our cognitive abilities actually go backwards when we’re watching television or doing stuff on computers.”