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Ebooks allow me to read far more than I could with paper alone. I can get thousands of books for free through services like Standard Ebooks, unglue.it, and Project Gutenberg. I've gotten literally hundreds of books for absurdly low prices thanks to Humble Bundles, and I've gotten many for $2 or less through Amazon's Kindle Deals of the Day. I currently have over 1500 ebooks in my library, more than I'll probably ever be able to read in my lifetime, and I've spent only a few hundred dollars. To get these books in paper I'd have had to spend tens of thousands and they'd take up an entire room of my house!

And I can read in more places. The newest Kindle models are waterproof, so I can read in the bathtub. With a built-in light I can read anywhere from direct sunlight to complete darkness. And I can take a single small device with me and have my entire library at my fingertips.

And the Kindle is easier to read. I have full control of the layout of the book: font, size, line spacing, margins, alignment, etc. I've had paper books that were so poorly laid out as to be nearly unreadable but the same book on the Kindle looks perfect. My spouse and I could read the same books, but with my good closeup vision I keep the font size almost as small as it can go while my husband's presbyopia made him crank it up to large print.