Lectura y nativos digitales

At the beginning of 2009, the Kindle2 was presented, with great fanfare, the device that Amazon only sells for the moment to a privileged few and represents the latest generation of the so-called eBooks, the iPod of books that in the competition Sony has baptized as eReader. By the way: what could we call him because of these our Hispanic parts? To misadapt the English term as ibuk or something similar would be too much. The expression "libro electrónico" is quite descriptive of the contraption and also serves to designate any literary text presented in digital format as happened in 2000 – by the way, with little success – with Stephen  King's novel Riding Bullet, and we hope that it will finally prevail as "e-mail" also did for e-mail, although it is nevertheless too long,  and languages tend universally to the economy. But it is a matter of designating, in short, a new medium for storing, transporting and reading those more or less extensive writings that we know as books. The magnificent marketing operation that Jeff Bezos unleashed at New York's Morgan Library when he presented his new bookcase has already made rivers of ink flow through the wide world and has revived the old theme of the imminent death of the book to which some doomsayers put an exact date just a few months ago at the Frankfurt Fair:  2018