A lot has been said recently on the issue of books and the digital age.
I, for one, am loyal to books—I’d rather put my nose up close and intimate to paper pages than an LCD screen. Thus, though they may not be entirely novel (<--HAH pun), I present the following nine reasons why books are better than digital e-books/e-readers (which are actually kind of cool and useful and will probably revolutionize the world in many good ways, but, still):