Yes, but not exclusively. The notion of 'casually leafing through a book and reading something that catches my eye' has no satisfactory analog for me in ebooks.

Yes, but not exclusively. The notion of 'casually leafing through a book and reading something that catches my eye' has no satisfactory analog for me in ebooks. Annotations are still kinda sucky on ebooks compared to marginalia, post-it notes amd what not. having a non electronic medium when i spend 50+ hours a week gawping at a screen is a nice mental break. dont get me wrong, im not a luddite. i do use ebooks, and they gave some killer features, but I prefer paper. Heres another slightly perverse example: search in ebook is too good. it takes you straight to the thing being requested. in doing so, it robs me of the experience of getting familiar with the totality of the text that i get by leafing through (think of it as slightly better linear search). over time, that leafing activity gives me a really strong mental map of the whole work that i just dont get with ebooks. ymmv.