I'm not gonna lie; I don't quite get the "I NEED PHYSICAL BOOKS" thing. I love words and stories, not the medium they're printed on. Biggest merit a physical book has over an ebook is that it doesn't run out of batteries. (And that I can fidget with the bookmark while I read.) But then an ereader can hold hundreds of books wherever you go and you can download something and read it right away instead of having to go to the bookstore, so it more than evens out as far as I'm concerned.

As an author I've sold about ten times more ebook versions than physical versions of my stuff. Now THAT sort of saddens me but only because the money I get from selling paperbacks is a heck of a lot more than the money I get from selling ebooks. xD

Maybe I'm the anti-romantic, but truth be told the only time I've ever been disappointed about an up-and-coming technology usurping an old and established one is digital photography getting rid of film and that's only because god damn I love the darkroom; there is something truly magical about handmaking your own prints. I concede that that's me being romantic and not practical.

Quote Originally Posted by Faris View Post
I have tried digital books on my iTouch and I just get too distracted by everything else that I can do on it. That and batteries don't die on paper.
As Shlup said, definitely try digital books on a dedicated ereader. The experience is much different. There's nothing else to do; it's just words. The screen is also much better.