[Skybird]

Indeed. And so far, when good quality paper was used and when the storage codnitons are kept optimal, paper is superior in loingevity to any modern tehcnbology dta astorage we so far have experience with. Books smell, and feel like something, and holding them already triggers memories in you. A digital data file - when the carrier and decyphering technology gets dated or got sorted out, you cannot even play it any longer.


I use a Tolino ebook reader, however - but only for books of very huge volume, that would be unpleasant to hold up when reading them in bed. Novels from 800 pages upward, for example. Good books like these I however also always own as a paper copy.


( Germany is the only Western country where Amazon'S kindle is not the number one ebook reader on the market. Over here, Tolinos are the market dominator. Technically comparable in qality to the Kindle, but you are not imprisoned in Amazon'S market biotope, but can switch between book chain shops, also can easily store pdfs and open format files on it. I recommend Tolinos over Kindles any time, they have just advantages over Amazon. In no other country, as far as I am aware, Amazon has been successfully confronted and countered on the ebook market. Tolinos are made by an alliance of other, non-Amazon book selling chain and online stores, and Telekom: a united front against Amazon, here it paid off for customers and the participants as well. )