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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
You just made me think of an advantage of paper books over e-readers which never occured to me before.
If you had been reading a paper book which turned out to be total crap, you could have thrown it under the train in frustration. You also could have thrown it on the ground and stomped on it, or ripped it page from page, or flung it as far away as you could, or tried flushing it down a public toilet, or set it on fire and laughed hysterically while watching it burn, or done a number of other frustration-relieving things to it.
Now as you were reading it on an e-reader (I presume), you had no way of relieving your frustration (without destroying valuable electronic property) other than pressing the delete button, which is obviously not very satisfying.
So if the book had been only a little worse you might have had thrown yourself under the train and ended your life tragically, all because of a stupid book.
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