Works in verse tend to be better on paper. Formatting is often important, and sucks in ebooks. Even if it were better, there's no way to do things like choose w

Works in verse tend to be better on paper. Formatting is often important, and sucks in ebooks. Even if it were better, there's no way to do things like choose which line a page splits on (well, not without potentially even-worse formatting weirdness). It'll vary by device and user settings. Physical books can help with recall of material, fiction or nonfiction, in my experience. Location of text on the page, size and appearance of the book, weight/texture of the paper. Footnotes/endnotes remain terrible in ebooks, mostly, and this doesn't only matter for non-fiction. Commercial, big-name ebooks full of stupid errors, as if they came from some early proofreading copy of the text a couple months before it went to the printer, are surprisingly common. No ebook has ever looked or felt important. Printed books can. Sentimentality? Maybe. But it can be motivating, and it can help get one in the right mood for a book. You can't arrange your fiction/poetry/philosophy ebook collection chronologically by date of author's first major work and place it on shelves where everyone in the house sees it daily, and thoroughly learns, over some time but with little effort, that so-and-so wrote after what's-his-face. An under-appreciated feature of physical books only because too few people choose this most sensible of shelving strategies :-)