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Ereaders and physical books have many different advantages; I wish citing ebooks were more common so people would be less shocked by it (and so there'd be better rules for it), as one example.
That said, nobody's ever really had an issue with it, and not having to mark down page numbers is nice (just hit "find in book" if you really care where my citation comes from!), so I think my real downside is the lack of interaction with other senses. You can't feel the pages, you can't have weird folded pages (which is something that some books do—I'm reminded of VAS and House of Leaves) and honestly, I like how different books have unique smells. You can smell the age, where it came from, sometimes the leather, how it's been handled, etc.
My ereaders do not have that benefit of smelling like 100 year old paper. But in any case, I've never understood this weird "it's my way or the highway!" that so many people have in so many different fields.
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