They used to say "Thursday is The New Friday", which all seemed to make some kind of sense if you put it into an after working hours, social drinking situation.  But since then things have gotten a little more complicated, so braingunk decided that it was about time that we explained the current state of affairs for you...

About a week ago a friend of mine sent me a web link as he often does.  Usually it's something funny, that then gets passed on and on and on and becomes just another one of those funny little internet "things". 

This particular Youtube link was entitled "Severe Earthquake Warning For California in September 2010" which to be honest didn't sound like it was going to be that funny...

braingunk has a theory about what you want to read.  It's based on some serious scientific analysis or something and we're pretty convinced it's right.

The way we see it, there's a lot of people buying iphones right now and a bunch of others saving up for their ipad.  Perhaps you're not an apple fan and you went for the Android or Blackberry option instead, or maybe you're just jogging along the laptop/netbook highway.

Either way you're the proud owner (or soon will be) of some serious titchy-tech (we should trademark that one)...

I've heard a lot of people make statements like the one above recently and with the recent introduction of Apple's iPad I can imagine why some people might think that they can imagine a time when everyone has such a device and that therefore the days of the paper book are numbered. Like I said, I can imagine why some people might think that, but those people would be idiots.

I'd bet my liver that the book will never be replaced by digital media. I'm sitting here on a train as I write and I'm surrounded by people reading paper based content. Sure there are a couple of people sending and reading txt messages from their phones and there's a guy across the way looks like he's surfing web sites on his laptop, but he and the phone people are out numbered by at least 5 to 1. The book and it's little cousins the magazines and newspapers have so many advantages over any electronic media it astounds me that anyone could think their days were even close to being up.

Let's have a little rundown of five reasons why books will never die...