This is not specific to you, but I've never understood the vitriol e-readers receive. E-readers provide incredible benefits and don't have to be all or nothing.

This is not specific to you, but I've never understood the vitriol e-readers receive. E-readers provide incredible benefits and don't have to be all or nothing. Just because I cook at home doesn't mean I'm against eating at restaurants. Almost all the news and ground-breaking journalism I read today is from the web rather than print. The combination of editorialized aggregators like Longform/Aldaily with the portability of e-readers, I now read more long-form articles today than in previous years because I don't have to sift through plethora of sources to find those high quality articles worth reading. Now, I can just preview an interesting article during the day, send it to my Kindle, and then read it later before I go to bed, on a device that's dedicated to the reading experience. I'll also add the consistency of the layout means the focus is on the story rather than the editorial design. Now with respect to books, a good portion of us live in smaller spaces like condos/apartments. Not having to store tons of books on shelves is a great way on saving space. Of course, I could borrow from the library, but I enjoy sometimes re-reading parts of books or going back to important points I highlighted. And while I enjoy the aesthetic presentation of books in a home, it's very dependent on space. Lastly, the fact that I can shop on my device was a real game changer. Like it's wonderful when an author cites another book, or you just have an inclination to read a certain topic, and you can get it instantly and keep feeding the fascination. Like I remember last January, I read more books in that one month on my Kindle (I think it was 12 books) than I remember ever achieving in previous years. Anyways, I'm certainly a proponent of removing oneself from digital devices a few hours a day, but I don't see e-readers as following into the same category as say, laptops/smartphones/tablets, which have far more versatile applications that can lead a person to be distracted.