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You can look at your bookshelf and see the books you've read, think about them, remember things inside them, events connected to them, to reading them, connect one book to another in your mind.. a name in a list cannot do that to the same extend. Our brain is hard wired to all our senses, obviously - so having something that is 'sensable' is going to cause more mental reaction.
I love my ebook reader, but I still buy the books I like as pbooks. Even if I'm really unsure, whether I will end up reading them again any time soon. That does not change the fact that I thought the idea of ebooks was awesome ever since I first read of the technology of epaper years before the first ereader arrived (and then I imported a K1 to Europe..). They certainly have their use and are better than pbooks at a lot of things. But they don't create emotional connections to specific content, because they are, obviously, contend independent.
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