Are Books An Endangered Species? – Booked – Reading unbound – Forbes. This is hard to imagine that books are going out of style. Yes it is super convenient to read on a reader, but those of us who grew up with books think of them as something more than that. Books have a life of their own, and the pages that you turn are steps to building an imagination of their contents. I bet that if you tested someone on a fMRI that reading a book would give more pleasure than reading a reader.