As much as I like paper books in theory (I have an entire room in my house dedicated to being a library), I found I haven&#x27;t actually really read one in a few years. Kindles, Tablets and the like are more convenient for linear reading (novels, etc.). For my last couple vacations, where I do lots of reading, I just brought my tablet and kindle along, where I would have brought a couple of books in the past. Bonus, they do other things that books don&#x27;t do.<p>Downside is all the obvious, needs batteries, charging, etc.<p>However, for non-linear reading (e.g. reference books), paper books can&#x27;t be beat yet. But funny thing, I bought some reference books for one of my teams recently and had to teach a couple of them how to use an index because they had only learned to ctrl+f to find things. I&#x27;ll admit that well organized hypertext reference guides work <i>almost</i> as well as a reference book, but you consume screen space trying to display the information while an open book on your desk automatically provides that &quot;screen&quot; space.<p>On the flip side, I can start reading a book on my tablet, move to my computer and then my phone all in the same day and modern reading apps keep everything synced pretty well.<p>I feel sad sometimes because my physical library hasn&#x27;t grown much, but then I remember that I&#x27;ve read many times the number of books on my digital devices because they&#x27;re so convenient.<p>I don&#x27;t like e-reader software and the way the information is displayed. I&#x27;ve found that the full-page image scans of books is more beautiful in many cases and works wonderfully on modern tablets with high resolution displays. There&#x27;s an entire library of these scans over at archive.org for those interested, in many genres.