What do you think about E books?

I was listening to talk radio this morning and in my state our governor was talking about all kids in school going to E books and how he is going to push for all kids in school to have an IPAD or something similar. Was just curious as to what people thought about that? Is this a good thing? I’m sure there will be some resistance to this, but those in resistance is this just delaying the inevitable? Kids nowdays hardly know what real book looks like anyways and most kids now days are more computer savy than most adults. Not to mention the fact that this might possibly save a ton of trees? Is there a bad side to this? Maybe the whole “big brother” thing?