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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6170797" data-attributes="member: 221">You seem to have a hard time believing that people's opinions or experiences can be different than yours. I accept and am not offended by the fact they you obviously prefer the electronic format. Why do you question my experiences or the validity thereof? People are allowed to think books superior to e-readers. Its a legitimate opinion.As for comfort, to be specific - I find the average paperback book to be easier on my thumbs than the average reader. The paperback books tend to be lighter in weight and thus easier to hold. I also do not enjoy repeatedly running my finger tips across the screen after a certain length of doing so. I find it physically annoying. I also can't do it with one hand, such as I know how to do with turning a page while holding the book with one hand.  All in all the use of a paperback book is more physically enjoyable for me than the tablet and it causes my thumb joints less pain in extended hours of reading. As for finding your place - sure the e-reader starts where you left off, but the act of finding a particular passage when you are done is more difficult than just turning to the spot in the book where you know the quote to be. Thus books, once known, are to me, faster than the e-devices in looking up relative passages. The exception to this is the engines formatted expressly to find passages or places quickly, such as biblegateway.com or the like. And while I am glad that you are unafraid of electronics breaking, I have seen multiple tablets, i-pads, and the like broken by being sat on, dropped, or otherwise harmed. Its a legitimate concern. Books are far cheaper to replace.</blockquote>

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