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I started collecting ebook replacements for some of my paper books because they were falling into pieces (or disappearing altogether due to borrowers). I decided that as I couldn't afford the money or space for hard wearing paper copies with proper sewn binding, best to get ebooks. I do have a number of properly bound hard covers of art books where the format would not work on my preferred screen size.
Ebooks do require some care and maintenance if I want them to last but not as much as mass market paperbacks that have been literally read to pieces.
I've a copy of Pride and Prejudice (annotated), publisher Bethany House, where the annotations are embedded as sidebars to the main text. So some interesting formats are possible with HTML.
I, personally, find the ability to have popup footnotes enough reason to prefer most academic works to be in HTML rather then in print format.
And I love the hyperlink, interconnected, with scholarly tools baked into the platform, nature of the Faithlife Logos/Verbum software and strongly regret that their attempt at a secular classics platform was short lived.
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