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Originally Posted by rkomar
This morning, I pulled out a paper book that was a Christmas present from many, many moons ago. Inside, I found a collection of colourful Spanish stamps with Franco's picture on them, and a hand-written list of the players from a championship Montreal Alouettes team that I was a big fan of back then. So, you don't even have to hollow out the book to store valuables in it, and sometimes a bookmark also tells its own story. Try that with an ebook!
Of course, on the other side, silverfish don't chew on ebook covers and poop inside.
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My husband writes nice little notes to me sometimes, and I slip them in a favorite book and forget about them, until the next time I read them and get a nice surprise once again.
I had forgotten 2 days after my husband and I were married we went into a second hand book shop and he bought me "Fast Food Nation" and I bought him "Brave New World". I forgot about this little outing, until one day recently I took it off the bookshelf and started reading, only to find the love note i scribbled in the front cover of our mutual wedding gift to each other.
I love my e-reader. But I place most of my value in real physical books. Digital books on a screen don't have the "book" feel to me. I'm not just talking about getting all gushy over paper, but just the whole culture of it all.