markwu (Malaysia)

E-books are weightless, can be easily uploaded, transmitted and downloaded, are searchable, and changeable from one file type to another, one print size to another, even one rotation to another. Yet they have two singular weaknesses. One, reading them burns the corneas over time, losing eyesight and thus much of life's jauntiness. Also, they are never the same as holding paper books in the hand, feeling the grain of the paper, remembering the smell of the print inks like those of yonder day Beano and Dandy paper comics.