Why books will forever be cooler than eBooks
Imagine life without Waterstones: I DARE YA.
A recent study found that 62% of 16 to 24-year-olds still prefer a paper book to an eBook. This isn’t news really, as we all know how super cool being a book lover is.
We’ve compiled a few reasons why shunning the lowly eBook will always be the right answer…
1. You can SMELL THEM: Yeah, Kindle doesn’t mass produce that evocative damp, musky smell.
2. You can write all over them in pencil and biro: fuck digital highlighting, nothing beats a good danger scribble on a library book.
3. You can’t hijack an eBook from your school library, or sell a copy on after you’ve finished with it. Who in this economic climate has the money to actually BUY a product and keep it?
4. You can stack them and balance your cup of tea on top. Oh yeah, it’s edgy and the risk of electrocution is reduced by 100%. Same goes for the bath: the risk of death by dropping a book in the bath is significantly lower than the electrical counterpart. (BATH SAFELY PEOPLE, IT’S NOT A LAUGHING MATTER).
5. You look like a seriously smart motherfucker with a bookcase. You may not actually have read any of them but nobody needs to know this.
6. The Rare Book Market is always thriving, with a book selling for £14.2million last week last week. Yeah, beats Amazon Trade In any day.
7. You can’t write personalised messages on a Kindle, or feel the same emotion you do when you read ‘Merry Christmas 1997, Love Mum and Dad x’ in the front of your childhood favourite.
Finally…
8. You can utilise serious hardbacks as weapons. You’ll sleep soundly with one of those bad boys next to your bed.