You can own a paper book in perpetuity. You can lend it, gift it, and read it in 40 years when the tech giants at the time of its publishing are long dead and t

You can own a paper book in perpetuity. You can lend it, gift it, and read it in 40 years when the tech giants at the time of its publishing are long dead and their standards long forgotten. No one needs to know you have it or what page you're on, it doesn't need network, it doesn't have naturally degrading rechargeable batteries, doesn't need a charge at all. It strikes a reasonable balance between freedom for its user and renumeration for its creator. I love reading on my Kindle, but ebook-exclusive publications are going to have evaporated in a few decades, and hardbacks will still be here.