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This hit me long long ago when the kindle first came out. At the time (haven't looked since), eBooks were the same price as paper back books, but with a paper back book you OWN it. You can GIVE it to a friend. You can SELL it. Heck, if it gets really cold you can even burn it. With an eBook you can read it, and thats about it.

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> With an eBook you can read it, rip it into an epub and give it to ALL your friends and everyone on the internet.

FTFY

Or more accurately, someone's already done it and you get to be one of those friends.

It's usually cheaper, and they often have sales were you get it for 10%~20% of the paperback price.

Also, for fiction, it's an advantage too because many times there's only a hardback + ebook release. Since hardbacks are the more expensive and less convenient/easy version to read - heavier, get's damaged more easily - you can just get the ebook for maybe half the price of paperback

I understand the point you are trying to make but a hardcover book is definitely can take more damage than an ereader.

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