My thoughts on eBooks, Tablets.
The companies outputting these devices often exclude certain territories, use closed formats and even dare to charge as much for a digital book as for a paper-copy. The paper copy one is much more versatile. Can be lend or borrowed without much problems, can also be bought and sold second hand so apart from the environmental impact of old style paper books there are a huge number of advantages over these digital ebooks.

Of course eBooks are wonderful and reading an eBook from a Star-Trek like datapad is the best thing since sliced bread but there are a lot of downsides to it as well. From what I gather some companies even don't let you 'own' the book and they even have to power to disable/erase the books.... Wow that really gets me thinking about Kafka.

Personally I will only want to use open ebook formats. Or buy ebooks at a much lower price as the use of the ebook is so much more limited than the paper counterpart. User freedom is incredibly restricted with ebooks and I don't like that one bit.