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dazcox - For me, the trick was that I prefer reading things that are new to me electronically via my Kindle. I tried an iPad, and I didn't find it to be in the same league for reading more than 15 minutes at a time.
Maybe I'm just arrogant, but a book on the shelf that I read is like a little trophy. Whenever I look at it on the shelf, I have a bit of pride and some fond memories of the book. That just doesn't happen with an electronic book. Electronic books don't start conversations with my guests the way paper books do. A literary classic that will be read more than once really deserves a bit of physical space and a nice hard binding, IMO. Books that I would rather have in hardcover, for instance:
- Sherlock Holmes
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Dictionary
- The Lord of the Rings
Despite this, I read a lot more eBooks now than paper books. But some of them just seem to deserve to be printed on paper.
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