People can see a huge potential in what is being offered by the likes of Amazon with their Kindle and humongous choice of ebooks, Kobo with their cut price, humble E-readers and, of course, the iPad which, amongst everything else it can do, can now allow people to view epub files (Kobo, iPad) and.mobi files (Kindle), if they have the right apps for the job, but others see a negative side, and a love of the tradition of reading, the smell of paper all but disappearing.