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BetterRed · 12-19-2014, 04:35 PM

I prefer paper when 'reading for pleasure', and ebooks when 'reading for information'.

Some of the reasons I prefer paper for pleasure include, I can give/loan them to friends for their pleasure, leave them on bus seats or park benches for whoever's pleasure, take 2 or 3 to a secondhand/remainder bookshop and swap for something I've not read, or give them to the local library or school.

I can even tear them apart to use as kitty litter or to make paper mache

A commercial ebook can't be reused, recycled or repurposed. If its not destroyed all it can do it to consume digital space, one day we'll probably find out that's also a finite resource

BR

12-19-2014, 04:35 PM	#95
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,893 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I prefer paper when 'reading for pleasure', and ebooks when 'reading for information'. Some of the reasons I prefer paper for pleasure include, I can give/loan them to friends for their pleasure, leave them on bus seats or park benches for whoever's pleasure, take 2 or 3 to a secondhand/remainder bookshop and swap for something I've not read, or give them to the local library or school. I can even tear them apart to use as kitty litter or to make paper mache A commercial ebook can't be reused, recycled or repurposed. If its not destroyed all it can do it to consume digital space, one day we'll probably find out that's also a finite resource BR Last edited by BetterRed; 12-19-2014 at 04:44 PM. Reason: grammar