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You can read books in the bath.
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Same with an e-book, and the latter I can even read in the shower if I put it into a transparent plastic bag!
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No need to turn off your book on a plane!
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Airplane mode (Wifi disabled) should do the trick.
E-ink readers work fine in the sun and don't yellow in the process.
Unfortunately they do! That's why I switched to e-books some years back.
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Antique books are amazing.
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Pretty, but impractical. I have some of the very early English language books on Go (Asian board game) that I don't even dare to open on a regular basis because I worry about damaging them.
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You can’t get an e-book signed.
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Unimaginative, just get the e-reader signed on the back.
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Libraries and bookstores!
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Never been an advantage for me since I mostly read English literature and always had to import the books (and wait two weeks or longer), provided what I wanted wasn't OOP.
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Finishing a long book is more rewarding this way.
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In the "Gosh, another thing that now collects dust." way. I find it (pathetically) more rewarding to have my e-reader post to Facebook that I finished a book. Because, you know, the world is eager to know when we read a book, and what we had for breakfast.
So do e-books: Tattoo your favorite author's signature on your skin! Also addresses the autograph issue from before. Two-in-one solution.
Sure they do. Lost plenty when a water pipe burst, and they get eaten by bugs and garbage-binned by midlife crisis ("too much clutter in my life"). E-books can be backuped, which was one of the chief reasons I swapped to digital books.
The one thing that I miss about e-books is the new book smell. But I can just buy a new e-reader every few months and stick my nose in the packaging for a while.