The only reason I own physical books is to impress my house guests.

>>8894974

With those books, I really hope this is sarcasm.

This is a joke right?

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>>8894988
HAVE YOU READ MCELROY?
HAVE YOU READ GASS?
HAVE YOU READ YOUNG?
HAVE YOU READ FRANK?
HAVE YOU READ MOORE?
HAVE YOU READ MARLEY AND ME?

"House guests"? I buy books for me, not to impress the handful of folks in a year who might have any opinion on my shelves.

>>8895358
why don't you have people over more often. I have friends over for dinner almost every week. we usually discuss the books we are reading and general life things.

>>8894974
I'm not impressed, Kenneth.

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>>8895528
erik? Alvin? dangy'do? WHO IS THIS

>>8894974
It's a few different reasons for me.

For children, because I don't think the experience of reading books on an IPad is the same. For the fun of collecting, because I have a cataloger's mind. For the rare books, because they don't have ebooks available. For the note-taking aspect, since there's nothing on Kindles that is easier than taking notes right in the book (the one with a keyboard was better, but it's still faster to write).

It never impresses anyone that comes over. My spouse just thinks they're annoying.

>>8894974
I own physical books because ereaders are for closet homos

>>8894974
I haven't tried e-readers, but I just can't really concentrate on pc or mobile media.