For me, there are no advantages to ebooks. *There are a lot of free classics available, but a lot of the books I want to read simply aren't available as ebooks. *Popular ebooks can cost as much or more than the copy in the bookstore. *You can't lend your friend a copy of an ebook. "Here. I just finished this book and thought you might like it too." *You can't write an inscription in/on an ebook. "Dear B..., I found this collection of poems in a used bookstore, and it reminded me of the wonderful summer we spent in W. With much affection, L... August, 1988." * When you go over to someone's house for dinner and they go into the kitchen to make final preparations, you can't browse through his/her e-reader and see what kind of books s/he likes. If there are shelves with books you can find out a lot about the person....'Hmmm.. Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror", Rumi's "Love Poems", "Knitting for Dummies" "Finding the Child Within", "All about Bonsai"' *With an ebook you can't wake up in the morning and find the cover of "To Kill a Mockingbird" on the pillow next to you, staring you in the face. *Spill wine on your ereader and you'll get mad. Spill wine on your copy of Don Quixote and you'll always think of your windmills whenever you pick up that copy.

well I still prefer paper books as more comfortable way of reading. Reading from monitor, makes my eyes tired. I like reading laying down in in bed. But it's easyer to find aby ebook I want. Still I like the smell of new books. :). Advantages of ebooks are: they are free, easy to get.

I agree with Arucard, my biggest problem about books is that they are literally kicking me out of my house, which by the way is neither big nor small; reading printed pages helps me learn better and writing annotations make me focus on the task, but the cost for this is getting quite high! Should I buy some old used cars, scatter them around the town filled with books ?

I second Arucard's opinion. The advantage of accessibility and availability in the case of e-books is indisputable,however I prefer the touch of books and going through the pages. In case of short articles the electronic option is favourable many times though.

You can pirate ebooks. However, there isn't much of a selection.