Real Books vs Virtual Books

I am the proud owner of a first generation Kindle. My One & Only tends to spoil me rotten and likes to second my own passions. It was Christmas 2011 when I received my very first ebook reader. We purchased it on Amazon and it took a good fortnight for it to get delivered. The await made it all the more desiderable and finally getting it home, safe and sound, from abroad was exciting to say the least! I remember bragging about how cool it was to read books on my Kindle. I would show it everyone and tell everyone that an e-reader was the best mean to read a book. No doubts it is a good device to read books, especially when travelling and when abroad. But I am recently reconsidering the power of paper over technology and I think that both kind of books have their unique and positive points that make them special to their reader.

An ebook reader (no matter what brand it is) is undoubtedly easy to carry in a girl's bag.  It's very light at weight (mine is lighter than 250 gr) and so thin you can fit it almost in every bag! And ebook reader is not too expensive to purchase and once you get the right device you can find many free pdf files of whatever book you are willing to read. So I would add cheap to the plus of ebooks reading. You can easily find whatever ebook you are curious to read online and no matter of what language you would read that very story in,you can easily do it. Furthermore there's no awaiting when purchasing an ebook online: the very same instant you press the buy button you get it downloaded into your device. Call it fast! 

On the contrary an old fashioned paper book has its own beauty, especially when it's a second hand book we are talking about. It carrie a story with it, that lays in its yellowed pages, in the unique smell its pages hold. A paper book is coloured, enriches your bookshelf and decorate your house. A paper book is real, you can touch it, smell it, underline it (though I am not too much into the latter), lend it and ask for it back, a real paper book is thick and fill in your bag and you can feel its weight when carrying it around with you. I especially like paperbacks because I love to "live" them, as I call it. I love to bend their spine, to leaf through their pages again and again, to wear them out, untill I am fully satisfied with what I've experienced. I am lately considering going back to some good paper book reading for the time being. Of course, I will be returning to e-reading as soon as I feel like to, because as I already said each one of said books has its own beauty and merits! 

What type of books are you into reading the most?