Things you can do with a paper book that you can't with an ebook.

windingstring:

• Lend or borrow it easily to/from someone else (Damn DRM)
• Read it in the tub
• Quickly riffle through it to find something you want (for me at least, looking for something in an ebook takes much longer, unless I know the exact word/phrase to search for)
• Turn back/forward to/from specific pages…

I have a Nook Simple Touch. It’s convenient. I no longer need to haul around printouts of research papers, it’s smaller than my Vector Calc textbook, and it works better than reading anything longer than five paragraphs on a computer screen. It’s great at making necessary/useful reading easier. I don’t yet have a single literary work on there—demarcation of the profane and the sacred.

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   Nook Simple Touch. It’s convenient....haul around printouts

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   : Yes! Yes! A thousand times — YES!

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