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If you rent and/or move often, paper books can be a considerable issue due to weight and space.

Though I love the smell and feel of them. Also, an e-reader backlight is such a great advancement for bedtime reading with a partner.

Not just when you rent/move. It's nice to be able to routinely read 1k+ pages long books, holding them in a single hand without straining your wrist, being able to comfortably do it on public transport, without a table etc.

All good points!

I buy paper books when I have to, but e-readers are fantastic. No reason to avoid them for the vast majority of novels which don't have weird formatting or tons of footnotes.

I think all the benefits you listed also apply to a kindle. You can get free ebooks via the library, it’s portable, and there’s no online BS to distract from your reading (I turn off the “show commonly highlighted passages” feature)