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Originally Posted by rhadin
But the love of ebooks that readers like Harry have and profess eludes me. Perhaps it is because most of my reading is nonfiction or perhaps it is my age, but I find I am less interested in ebooks than I was previously.
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There are two main reasons for it, Richard:
1. Storage space. By the mid 1990s my house had reached the stage where I had double-stacked bookshelves along every accessible wall surface, and no room for any more. Ebooks allow me to have as many books as I want without running out of storage space. These days I use my bookshelves for my non-fiction books that aren't available as ebooks (or which are easier to use as paper books), and a very small number of my particular favourite fiction books which I have as good-quality hardbacks, such as my 3-volume illustrated versions of "The Lord of the Rings".
2. I travel a great deal, both with work and for pleasure, and ebooks allow me to have a large number of books with me at all times. Prior to ebooks I would always agonise about which books to take with me on a trip; now I just take my Kindle and I have close to 2000 books with me.