With huge losses befalling the "Big Box" book stores will the nation's once proud "Mom & Pop" shopfronts start taking back the space. A huge U.S. upturn in the hand held device and smart phone industry, you know, the iSociety, has already made one BB store useless. I don't know about all of you, but I for one enjoy a good book store. I appreciate the work involved and look at books as art, not just words on a page. Books are art forms that the iSociety wants to just shove into the confines of some relentless ibox tablet. Which begs the question, are we losing all touch, of well, touch? I mean we already buy about all our music from some sort of online download source, rendering the need for touching the record from the now deceased record shop. With the recent advent of the k-kup we have eliminated just another waste of our time, that dreaded stop at the coffee shop where we might have to interact with someone. Now with online retail giant iStore.com taking a huge bite out of BB store Barnes&Noble, will this force the book king under, even with it's pad reader Nook. If this becomes a reality and the future of book reading is the cold glass feeling of some pad or another maybe the small business book store can save me. Should I dare to dream of a day when I can stroll a local downtown street for a cup of coffee, stop in and buy a vintage edition CD of the Rolling Stones, pop on my headphones and push open the door of Charmed City Books. I can dream about it.