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I just read an interesting book - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much... and it talked about that - how the physical form of the book becomes part of our personal history - the feel of the pages, how it opens to a well loved passage, how the stains on the cover remind you of the summer at the beach when you read it, even the smell when you open it, takes us to a point in our personal history. That we become connected through our own timeline with the books on our shelves.
You can also read a book by candle light during a hurricane. The Kindle will eventully lose power. Also, with a Kindle, I think you're really only renting the books. Eventually, you lose the right to read them. And of course, some are not available in electronic editions. So, we agree on this...I prefer paper books.

Oh, and you can't read a Kindle during takeoff and landing.
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