This is a pretty confused article that tries to find flaws in ebooks without using a distinct definition of what ebooks are. The author is also pretty uninforme

This is a pretty confused article that tries to find flaws in ebooks without using a distinct definition of what ebooks are. The author is also pretty uninformed about the history of ebooks and misunderstands the target market. My first ebook format was the .LIT format books from microsoft, a format released back in 2000 and supported on windows 95. I also don't know what scholarly nonfiction the author reads but every single research paper I've read has been a pdf. Ebooks are much bigger than the kindle. The author cares about mainly aesthetics aspects of physical books but then argues those aspects makes them superior. That's not what makes a book valuable. The actual words and meaning matter and only if you consider poems does formatting matter. Art books aren't books in the traditional sense, but it seems that is what the author of the article seems to care about. With an iPad, you can keep all of the pages and formatting you would find in a typical book if you stick with a pdf. For really complex books, you could just make a pdf of scans. Even comics now come as a digital archive (CBR/CBZ) of high res pictures if not pdfs. I personally prefer digital copies because I can zoom into art that is impossible to do on physical copies. Being able to change font type, font size, line formatting, line spacing and paragraph spacing without having to reprint a book is fantastic. Making different iterations and improvements of a book wastes nothing. These are positives, not negatives. These arguments make it clear to me that in a few decades people will see physical paper books the same way people see records/cassettes today. Luddites seem to care more about what the experience is supposed to feel like rather than what it can be. People's attachment to physical books is the reason why ebooks are so expensive. They aren't supposed to be equivalents, ebook distribution is free, lending ebooks doesn't make it unavailable to others, ebooks aren't tied to any specific device. But things like copyright or library lending laws treat ebooks like physical copies. If you're that attached to books, you can always take an ebook and print it out yourself. You see people argue that music sounds better from actual records but digital music has become such an easy and mainstream thing, no one argues that we should be choosing records over digital files. School children today are using digital textbooks, the era of paper books is ending. No one argues that dictionaries need to be physical books only.