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Originally Posted by theducks
To me 'real' means I have physical possession of the media. I don't rely on an outside (my possession) 'connection' to view that content. It still works if the Internet is down.
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An ebook still works if the Internet is down. While the Internet makes it easier to buy ebooks, it has no more to do with ebooks than roads have to do with physical books. In the first science fiction novel to describe ebooks,
Return From the Stars by Stanislaw Lem, the main character bought them as crystals in a walk-in bookstore that also sold the reading device. And if we didn't have the Internet, we could buy ebooks on physical media like we have long done with movies, music, and software. With ebooks, you have physical possession of them just as much as you have physical possession of the music on CDs or the movies on DVDs.
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I can use my media if I have a source of energy.
A candle or sun provides light to read paper media.
A battery or generator can run a media player-display.
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If you get a solar-power USB charger, the sun can also power an ereader.