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Digital data, is unfortunately, a very volatile asset. Most intelligent electronic users know this. Not to mention the fact that the Kindle technology and other ebook readers like it suffers at the whims of its DRM technology and technologically incompetent people like lawyers and judges. Also, file formats from just twenty years ago can barely be read today.
You can just unzip ebooks and read them in a fucking browser...
True, but I'd still rather be able to read an actual book and have an actual tangible copy of it, and passing down an actual library of books than a USB stick of full of PDFs of dubious quality and readability.
Last but not least, is the comfort of not being a neophile douchebag, jerking off over the latest fad technology like ebook readers; using a iPad as such would probably be the only thing that would be committing an even worse offense in the same category.