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7. Print books allow high-resolution images, often up to 2400dpi; art and text can be combined on a page in a way that allows both enjoyment of the design layout, and easy zooming-in to read the text.
8. Print books allow tactile and visual features that don't work on screens: cutout, popout and textured sections in children's books, metallic inks, tilted or varied-sized text (House of Leaves would never have been written in a digital-only book world).
9. Print books can carry memorabilia: not just annotations, but a specific person's annotations; not just "a bookmark," but "the concert ticket from our first date, at the chapter where the hero proposes to the heroine."
10. Print books let you know at a glance how much more there is to read; you can tell if you're a third of the way through or almost done without thinking about it.
There are more advantages. Print and ebooks serve different needs; I don't want print to vanish. But I'd really like "compare the two!" blog and news posts to compare *real* features, not "since I don't know how ebooks actually work, I'm going to claim that pbooks do that thing better."
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