eBookstores (Plazoo)

The library from Google deal with local bookstores: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/bu...okstore & st = CSE have me thinking about what a library might look like. The web template is quite obvious and already exists. But what is the brick and mortar equivalent? I think that finally it might go something like this: series of LCD screens (24-30 "") with connections to view books online Slaved on a larger screen through the walls of the latest privacy books or screens with video any (so that the neighboring cubicle cannot tell what you are looking for to) sorting chair comfortable, adjustable, or simple Chair for you to sit for perhaps 30% of stations, LCD you 2nd. seat (or a loveseat) for having an eye blow and probably also some free chairs for a 3rd person. seat to be reversed at the end of the line, a flag indicating what station was open card (sensors in the seat would automatically detect whether someone was) prospective buyer comes, see where they can host, perhaps an ad or two for a book, goes and sits. Possibly a RFID card, B & N card or whatever would be detected or glissée or major credit cards and they you have the program installation and references. Screen say hello, "Mr. Jones, show some books of interest, etc. You may browse or talk on the screen, to tell him what you want. You may browse thru the book by screen, keyboard or the floor if you want a coffee, you could order it (what you like is stored), they get to your station. World book review, recommendations, etc., is available. If you want to talk to someone, click and they would come (or better, they would come to the screen and you could talk with them) connections to Librarything or Shelfari, you could check if you have the book (also used to generate lists of preference for recomenadations (e.g.: you love author such n.)) (For example, it is a new book....) order (e-book or ordinary paper) is just a click or two more later. If you were a reader of electronic books with you, it would download towards it. If you have been giving the book as a gift, the system can check whether they had already there. I do not see the aisles roaming customers to browse physical books much more time. Perhaps 10 years or not. But I think the model will be over, and it becomes more a question of how the book is selected and purchased. For some, it would be online. But for others, I think it moves more than a type library model, with reading stations, etc. There are people who want to spend time in a bookstore, browse through the pages, and this gives it to them.