Superb quote from Alex Beam on digital books

The digital book has no front or back covers;there is no place to assert ownership,and there is nothing to own.``The digital delivery module'' is a piece of molded plastic book made in China,encasing a few memory chips.That is not the book,that's the ''reader.''Wait,I thought I was the reader.Oh,never mind.-Alex Beam,columnist for THE BOSTON GLOBE