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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The more backups you do, the more space you need for them. And buying flash drives, external hard drives, and/or space online costs money. Plus time; and time is money, isn't it?
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Ebooks are
tiny -- typically 1mb or less. An ebook will cost you $0.000062 to back up to an external hard drive and takes virtually no time. Backing up your files is virtually free.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I don't get the great appeal of instantaneously getting your book.
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The rest of our society gets it, by the way.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I mean what serious reader doesn't have a few books on a “to be read” list? Does everybody see a book title and decide that they want to start reading it immediately?
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Oh yeah, another advantage I forgot to mention: You can't rip out the first 2% of a paper book and carry it as a sample for your convenience.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
And you are right, search and annotations are advantages of ebooks, but those sound like something work-related to me.
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Or school-related, or for people who just like to mark up their books. (Paper is easier to annotate, by the way, but you can't edit or erase hand-written notes.)
The real issue, though, is that ebooks are in fact a completely different format with its own pros and cons. When you are only pointing out what you lose with paper, you're just taking the ways ebooks are saving you money for granted (especially with delivery, and re-delivery of ebooks).