In Allan Reiter's recent blog on the Borders books announcment that they will become part of the tmobile wifi network he makes the some good points about why anybody would want to have high speed wireless connectivity in a booksore. Checking prices, reading reviews, seeing similar titles - even adding a terminal. All good points. However, he must not have kids. I can't remember the last time I actually went to a bookstore to by myself a book, I do that online form amazon and others.

However I do go to Barnes and noble and some other bookstores now and then with my children (especially the younger ones) to purchase them books. I can't imagine buying childrens books online. I've never read a review of a "pop up" book. I do spend lots of time waiting for them to look at each and every book on each shelf though, and while some would shun this idea, I'd LOVE to check email and read news storys in my spare time at the book store.