Amazon moves forward.

For $10 a month Amazon will allow you to read any one of some 600,000 titles for no additional charge. As I buy some 6 books a month from them this is a slam dunk.

The library as we know it has long been doomed, and this will only spur its demise. High time we redeveloped all that costly real estate and put it to better use. Yes, Hitler would be proud. Now we really can burn all those books with no feelings of remorse, together with the diseases they carry in their pages.

The next step will be to extend this service to art and photography books which take up the most space and poundage in the average home. Please, Amazon, get on it. And while you are at it, Mr. Bezos, wrest control of obscenely priced academic books from the likes of the thieves at Pearson and add them to your service.

Signing up is a one click thing and this is the result: