The death of the book is a prophecy that we in rhet/comp are particularly familiar with, as is the related heralding of e-books as the birth of a superior reading technology. In "from Pixels to Pencils," Denis Barron acknowledges that "[a]s the old technologies become automatic and invisible, we find ourselves more concerned with fighting or embracing what's new" (31). This is certainly true of how the media represents our new writing (and reading) technologies. They want us to pick a side and according to publications like Time magazine, there are only two sides to choose from.