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Why A Book Will Always Be Better Than A Kindle
Is there anything better than a good book? I don’t mean the electronic version you download on your Nook or Kindle with the Kate Spade cover you bought at Barnes and Nobles for $50. I’m talking about the faded letters of a worn hardback. I’m talking about the heavy weight of the hundreds of pages, bound up in your hands. I’m talking about the soft breeze of flipping through the pages, front to back, then back to front.
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Well, yes and no. The good thing about e-readers is that there a next to no physical resources that go into their manufacture and transport. There are books kind of fun to read, but not really worth holding on to. I won't list them - we all know what I'm talking about. And then there are the Cat's Cradles and Infinite Jests, and Anna Karininas, and 1984s. Thoes books are worth pulping a tree for.
Personally, I have well over 500 books scattered around the house and at least a hundred digital books on my Kindle. While my binge-shopping for books has been curtailed over the past several years, it still occurs especially when there's a good sale on.
I think that the world is big enough for both 'analog' and 'digital' books to both flourish. There's no reason why one must vanquish the other.
I prefer non-e readers and the chances of me ever getting an e reader are very low indeed.