I love books, always have. For most of my life I was a frequent patron of the local library. But some years ago, I started buying the books that I read - mostly from Amazon, but other online sites as well, e.g., the Conservative Book Club.  In the last year, however, I have experienced various difficulties in the process: books sent to the wrong address, wrong book sent to the right address, or no book sent at all.  Now I am a fairly tech savvy guy: cut my computing teeth on Unix systems in the 80s and 90s, have a laptop, use an iPhone, set up a wireless home environment.  So I figured that I would try an e-reader. I bought the Nook instead of the Kindle or iPad because of cost, size and the fact that the Nook is touch-screen (like my iPhone) and the Kindle is not. This week I downloaded my first Nook book, Mark Steyn's After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. In his blockbuster predecessor, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Steyn warned that Western...(Read Full Article)