Mark it on your calendar: On December 25th, due to emerging trends and really bad weather, for the first time ever, e-books outsold paper books. I've been reading e-books on the itty-bitty screen of my PDA for years now, ever since I found out about Free Baen Library, but I didn't expect the world to catch up with me until sometime around the Star Trek timeline. Can FIrst Contact be just around the corner?