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I love my Reader. But I miss the paper, the bindings, the color prints, the clean white paper, the smell of the book, the feel of an old one that was once owned by someone else unknown to me, the sense of possession that comes with holding a physical object, the enjoyment upon stumbling on an old favorite while browsing my library, the marks I've made in the margins, the marks that others made there, the look of a physical library, the ability to loan or give away one to a friend, the ability to buy an old one in one of the few remaining used bookstores. I miss all of those and the other things that have been mentioned (dust jackets, art, browsing in bookstores and libraries, thumbing through them). I still have plenty of pbooks so these sensations aren't entirely disappearing for me anytime soon. But as I spend more time reading electrons I do sense a bit of a loss. Silly, really.
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