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David McElroy posted: " Some people love ebook readers. They love the
fact that they can have dozens or hundreds of books with them on a small
device. With some of those gadgets, the power can last for days or weeks.
You can order any book you want and have it immediately inst"
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<http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?author=3> No ebooks for me: Reading is about
more than simply absorbing data <http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?p=18995> by David
McElroy <http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?author=3>
[image: Woman reading
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Some people love ebook readers. They love the fact that they can have
dozens or hundreds of books with them on a small device. With some of those
gadgets, the power can last for days or weeks. You can order any book you
want and have it immediately instead of going to a store or waiting for it
to be shipped for you. That all sounds great. So why don't I want one?
I'm thinking about this today because of a discussion that took place on my
Facebook page Thursday morning. I posted a picture of a tongue-in-cheek
display in a bookstore
window<http://www.davidmcelroy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Ebooks-vs-real-books.jpg>.
It listed the advantages of "real books" over ebooks, pointing out that
they don't need batteries or software upgrades. And so forth.
More than two dozen people quickly "liked" the picture, some just because
they liked a clever promotion and some because they prefer "real books," as
I do. A few people chimed in to argue the superiority of ebooks, explaining
that you can get PDFs of books and that you can carry lots of books with
you, etc.
Here's the thing. I understand the technical advantages of ebooks. It's not
that I've somehow missed the facts of how they work or what they're capable
of. I don't need to be "educated" about them. It's simply that other things
matter more to me. For my needs and preferences, real books on real paper
matter.
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