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After watching the movie The Battle of Britain the other evening with my 11yr old son, he was asking questions of the aircraft used on both sides. I was able to go straight to a shelf of reference books and pick out one encyclopedia of aircraft used during WWII and another (the title escapes me now) of all the facts and figures (losses, equipment lists, divisions etc.) of WWII for all countries. I flicked back and forth through the books, finding info he was interested in.
Could I do that with any kind electronic device? Nope. Even a pdf on my laptop would have taken far longer and you just cannot look through books in the same way electronically.
I'll never stop buying real books, fiction and non-fiction for the reasons given here and a number of others. Ebooks are a poor substitute imo.
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