Ok, so I may be late to this party, but our office is finally making the leap to Kindles and mine has just arrived via the kindly UPS man. And I'm not ashamed to admit that it's love at first sight.

As any publishing industry professional will tell you, up until the advent of eReaders and Kindles, we all had a permanent crick in our necks from carrying around a tote filled with manuscripts and proposals. I don't know how many times multiple manuscripts were delivered on the same day, and I had to let one sit because it couldn't fit in my "to read" bag. Now I can load this tiny thing up with all my manuscripts and take them wherever I'm headed (hopefully, the beach) and toggle through at will.

But, I have a confession to make: I don't think the Kindle can shake my love of actual, physical books. I just put in an order for some titles from my local indie bookstore, and there is something thrilling and unreplaceable about going in and chatting with the owner and leaving with some good old paper in my hands. So maybe this is the happy medium- manuscripts and quick emergency reads on the Kindle, and "forever" books at home on my shelf.

-Michelle Brower