Kindle or "Real Book" part 2

As I knew I would, I've been thinking of other reasons to chose Kindle (or your favorite eReader or App) over "real books".

It gives you privacy to read what you want without other people knowing.  It's not that I read anything I'm embarrassed about...it's just that what I read is none of your business, unless I chose to tell you what it is.  Come on...admit it....you like your privacy too.

You can read them in the dark!!  Assuming that you've gotten past the earlier readers which weren't lit, pretty much everything you read on these days is, whether it's a Kindle, your phone, your tablet, are lit.  The pages of a book do not light up.  There are book lights...I think I had the first model.  Clip that sucker to a hardcover book and WOW that thing was heavy.  It had a cord and you could either plug it in or attach the cord to a battery pack that held 2 C batteries.  Like I said...it was the first one produced.

Samples!!  What could be better then having samples of the books you are thinking of reading delivered to you to read at your leisure?  I doubt there is a reader anywhere that doesn't like to book shop.  To go into either a book store or library, to browse and look at books.  But, the ability to bring a part of that book home with you is wonderful.  It also gives you a much better idea of what the book is about, the writers style, etc...then just reading the blurb on the back or dust jacket.

Odd ball books, Singles, Pamphlets and Documents....  I love reading all sorts of strange things.  Most are in my main areas of interest and I'd like to keep them, but that can become very difficult and hard to manage in paper form.  Some aren't even available in paper form.  How much easier it is to have them on my Kindle in the collection that applies to their special interest.  
Also don't forget all those indie books that would never be published that wander around different sites that would never see the light of day in the "real book" world.  

I'm a reader, not a collector.  It seems to me that what I keep hearing most from those that love print books is that they love the "feel and smell" of the book, but more then that, they love to be able to look and see them on the shelf. As a matter of fact I watched a video of a woman this evening that started with her ticking off all the ways in which eBooks are superior to print books, and even admitting that it seemed like eBooks had won; but then she turned around to the book cases behind her and said that for her, print books were better because they were great to look at.  And I have no problem with that, to each their own. That however would make them superior for book collecting not book reading.