Originally Posted by jiejie

I often need to bring back to the USA, books published in Asia not normally available in North America nor on electronic media--most of them are art, architecture and cultural where the illustrations are as important as the text. There's just no substitute for an old fashioned hard copy for things like these. So the admonition to "get a Kindle" is a bit simplistic--I'm no Luddite but modern technology has its limits."