1. BOOKMARKS ARE OBSOLETE! Never scrounge around for a random paper to hold your place and then later go looking for that important gift card/social security card/police report and be unable to find it. eReaders keep your place!
2. YOU CAN EAT AND READ! Ever do that awkward dance of trying to hold a burger with two hands and hold the book open with your elbow? (see illustration below if you've never had this problem) Then the mustard drips on your page and your perfect book is ruined. eReaders generally have accessible Next Page buttons and the screens can be wiped off.
3. YOU CAN CARRY A WHOLE LIBRARY! You don't need to worry about running out of shelf space. You can download books anywhere and carry them with you. Bring three books on your vacation and still have space in your carry on!
4. FOLLOW LINKS IN BOOKS! Hyperlinks in books can bring you to references, sources, and similar content!
5. BUILT IN DICTIONARY! Reading The Invisible Man? Not sure what that word akimbo means? They keep using it!!! Oh, look. [Click] It means standing with elbows out and hands on hips. Now I know!
6. NO SHIPPING! Free shipping. No wait. Don't wait for Barnes & Noble DHL shipping to take 9 days to bring you your book and not have tracking info until the last 4 (a recent experience of mine). Instantly delivered via whispernet (Amazon) or what-have-you. Don't wait for that book you're jazzed to read now.
7. KEEP YOUR BOOKS NEAT! So many of my books are wrecked from traveling in my purse. My leather Kindle folio and my Kindle are two years old and they are in great shape.
8. SAVE MONEY! Yeah, a Kindle costs at least 100 bucks, but when you start cutting out shipping and cutting out printing costs, you get cheaper books. Over the life of your eReader you will easily make it up. Buy 99¢ books from indie authors who would otherwise have to sell them for $13.99 print on demand. The money saving feature of eReading means that we get to see brilliant indie authors who might otherwise get lost in the publishing house shuffle.
9. BE DISCREET! Don't want anyone know you're reading a romance novel, or a self help book for that embarrassing problem, or Twilight? Nobody has to see what you're reading! Of course, if you're a snob and carry around a Quantum Physics textbook just to look smart, this won't help you.
10. SAVE THE TREES! Reduce your carbon footprint by consuming less paper!
Speaking of eReaders, did you know that you can read Kindle Books on an iPod, Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC...? And if you're lucky, you can read MINE FOR FREE!
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