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Paper books will never run out of power, be corrupted by a bad read/write, or be arbitrarily removed from my device (like Amazon did with copies of Nineteen Eig
by Casseres 10y ago
Paper books will never run out of power, be corrupted by a bad read/write, or be arbitrarily removed from my device (like Amazon did with copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four).
Also, it's easier to flip back and forth through the pages, they look great on a bookshelf, and they have a wonderful tactile feel and smell.
However it is hard to beat the portability and convenience of an eReader. My library is, and will remain, a combination of both physical and digital books.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoOh paper books can certainly fail. By fire, water or vermin damage. Or by being lost. I'd argue that digital books are actually more robust. You may have to pay for them again, but no book will likely every be permanently lost in our civilization again, until the apocalypse.
- WalterBright 10y agoI've sold books (and regretted that), lost physical books, and have had them destroyed by water and mildew. The worst is dimly remembering you had a book, and searching every nook and box and cranny in the house for it, because you have several thousand books stuffed everywhere. Nothing is perfect.