Book-loving columnist converts to the Kindle

The LAT's Michael Hiltzik explains his conversion:

I come at this task as a lifelong voracious reader and adherent of the books-as-totems school of household design: One entire wall of our family room is a bookcase, floor to ceiling, and piles of books unstrategically decorate almost every other room too.

Yet over the last seven months I've become a convert to e-reading, to the point where reading something bound and on paper seems almost quaint. I never thought I would make this transition, certainly not so effortlessly. I say this in full awareness that this trend may do incalculable harm to traditional bookstores, places where I have spent incalculable hours of my life.

Plus, he says, "There's no question that I've bought more books, and read more, than I did in any equivalent pre-Kindle period."