Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm towards you or anyone else. Like I said before, a policeman's job is to protect people. And if they can't, that's an issue for the officer. But for now, don't worry about it.

Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the —physical pleasure of turning actual pages— and how ebook will —never replace the real thing—. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart invention comes along. Each moan is nothing more than a little foetus of nostalgia jerking in your gut. First they said CDs were no match for vinyl. Then they said MP3s were no match for CDs. Now they say streaming music services are no match for MP3s. They're only happy looking in the rear-view mirror.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Kindle yourself in your spirit.