(because bureaucracy hadn't caught up to tech yet).
My wife worked in a routing center for a couple years, she said the same thing....You know what I was just thinking? You can't beat someone to death with an ebook. As ebooks become more prominent, I think "novelty" doorstopper books will probably soar in value -- particularly among the poorly educated. They will then take their rightful place beside the baseball bat as the most common murder weapon.--Dither