This makes me just a teensy bit sad:

Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, theKindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books.

In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.

The pace of change is quickening, too, Amazon said. In the last four weeks sales rose to 180 digital books for every 100 hardcover copies.

Keep in mind that this is only hardcover books; paperbacks likely still outnumber their digital counterparts (these numbers were not released).

If I were to buy an eBook reader, it would be the Nook, not the Kindle. But I’m still torn. I love the smell of ink and paper. I love turning pages. These things are becoming obsolete, but I want to hold on to them as long as possible.

But a part of me wants the gadget too. :)