Having enjoyed my Kindle and the many eBooks I have read this past year, I must say there are some aspects of the traditional paper book which I will miss because there are some things one can do with traditional books that one cannot do with an eBook:
1. stack them up in a pile and have a plant stand for the herb of your choice.
2. throw them at the cat -- and still be able to read them.
3. burn them in the fireplace -- especially when an ice storm has deprived you of electricity.
4. use them as a door stop.
5. hide money or stock certificates in them -- "hiding something in plain sight."
6. sell them on eBay to someone with that type of addiction.
7. recycle them --" paper thou art and unto paper thou shalt return."
8. stack them up to replace a missing table leg -- no one need know what happened to the original leg.
9. tear out individual pages to wallpaper your "reading room."
10. if really desperate, one can tear out individual pages and use the same way my grandparents used the pages from the Sears catalog
All I'm saying is that modern technology has some trade-offs.
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