My response: I want to like physical books, but I just can’t.
They are so heavy that when I move I nearly break my back. When I go on a trip, I can only carry a few of them. I can carry thousands of ebooks if I want.
Physical books are smelly and they decay. They also attract bugs and take up far too much space in the house. And I don’t like displaying what I read to other people as I want as many as possible to know as little about me as possible, so ebooks are much more private.
Copying text out of a physical book is a slow, manual process. It’s a few clicks in an ebook.
Some old people and their adoration of antiquated, inferior technology mystify me.
Stacked correctly, physical books are pretty bulletproof and as an American that is important.
So there’s that, I guess.