Basically, if you don't want to listen to digital information in the form of books, you can look at digital information in the form of books. Sony's device will let you carry around digital books. I remember hearing in the late 1990s about a paper PARC Xerox (?) was working on that was composed of little cells filled with oil. The idea was that an information transmission via some wave or another could rearrange the oil so that you saw black-on-white text. Then, you could delete the info. and wait for another transmission. The idea was that newspapers and books could be generated daily, and we wouldn't have to throw away heaps of paper every day.
Well, it is a decade later, and this device is what is available for 300 beans. Sony has about 20,000 titles available for reading with the reader, and they are adding more titles and publishers.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14387
