One advantage that ebooks have over pbooks is that you can buy them and be reading them within 5 seconds or so of purchase even at 2 am when the paper book stores are all closed for the night. On the other hand order a physical book (paper) online at Amazon and you have to wait for someone to package it for shipment and for it to make its way through I don't know how many hands before it reaches you up to several weeks later. Also ebook pages can't get dirty by being handled unlike a paper book. Borrow a paper book from the library on the other hand and you are dependent upon whomever borrowed the book before you having taken care of it while it was in their possession.
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