[jyl]

Books are more functional in some cases. Easier to stuff a paperback in your jacket than an ebook, and it doesn't need batteries.

Books are also more decorative and browsing a shelf of books is a different experience than clicking on a series of files

95% of books ever published are out of print, so there is a huge amount of content not easily available on ebook

But ebook readers are cool too, and I think the ideal would be to have both.

Well, after they improve the experience. Still not where they need to be