For about 20 years, I have been observing the paper-book-to-tablet ratio when I'm on the bus. Of course, back when I started it was because I was wondering if

For about 20 years, I have been observing the paper-book-to-tablet ratio when I'm on the bus. Of course, back when I started it was because I was wondering if tablets would do away with paper books. Now it's just out of habit, because in fact the smartphone turned out to be an unintentional ally of paper books. I see people with both paper books and smartphones, but people don't normally want to carry two screen devices with them, and they sure aren't giving up their phones. So the tablet/e-reader/whatever-you-call-it peaked 5-10 years ago. Of course, this discussion is about work, not how one reads books, but I think something similar is happening. Tablets are too close to other devices (laptops, smartphones) which are not going away, and therefore they are appear to have hit a hard upper limit. My 14-year old daughter used to use tablets; now she uses her chromebook, her smartphone, and her desktop, but never an iPad. Most impressively, she even uses a Wacom tablet, which she plugs into her desktop, because she liked it better than the iPad for drawing. I think she is not alone, and people her age will go into the workforce more accustomed to using phones and laptops to get things done.