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I like the convenience of an ebook reader. I used to have three or four books with me at a time and it was really hard on my back - now I can have hundreds with me in something even smaller than a pbook. I also like how much more comfortable it is to read. I could never read in bed with pbooks, because it was impossible for me to find a comfortable position, but an ebook reader is small and light enough to make reading in bed easy. I also tend to only buy books that I like enough to re-read, and I re-read them dozens of times - which means that pbooks usually end up falling apart. I don't have to worry about that with ebooks.
I used to wax romantic about the smell of old books, I really did - I still do kind of like the smell of libraries - but after getting a library job and working with decomposing, foul-smelling, bug-infested, nasty old books, the romance is rather dead. I completely prefer ebooks now.
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