As E-books become popular, what will happen to the reader?

I've seen a friend's Kindle, and I'm sure I'll be seeing iPads around me very soon. So far I'm not very interested, but I'm sure the convenience will drive me to become an e-reader fairly soon.

I liked the New York Times commentary on e-books by Klinkenborg
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/opinion/15thu4.html?th&emc=th

"The question isn’t what will books become in a world of electronic reading. The question is what will become of the readers we’ve been — quiet, thoughtful, patient, abstracted — in a world where interactive can be too tempting to ignore."

Perhaps readers in the future, like my son, will never know the difference between offline reading and online reading. But I like the "inertness" of books as the writer of the article above aptly put it.