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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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 |
I am the opposite. Reading fiction is infinitely better on an ereader. Not that I didn't love reading paper books when that was all I had.
Donating/giving/trading is good although I have spotted many a soggy paperback on a park bench.
I donate to the thrift stores etc. by rounding up any purchase to the next $5 when I shop there. Or putting money in various collection places and other ways. I actually get more of a positive feed back from that and a higher feeling of satisfaction than from giving them a bag of books.
Giving/trading with friends has only happened in rare instances for me. Most of the people I know prefer to buy their own books or don't read fiction. For the few that do, I will just lend them a reader if I trust them to return it.
I guess I am lucky in that I have always bought or borrowed from library books I wanted to read and never worried too much about what I would do with it when I was finished. I did give/lend/trade paper, but that was mostly because they were taking up space.
Helen