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by armchairhacker 5 days ago
> I hope you're saying that is only applicable to you personally

My comment starts with “Personally, …”

> not having to turn my book off during airplane take off and landing

E-readers don’t need to be always online, some don’t even have cellular

> books do not run out of battery so they do not need to be recharged

Some e-readers have long battery life, and most support wireless charging (https://zens.tech/pages/which-e-readers-support-wireless-cha...)

> You can have multiple books open at the same time, admittedly, this is more for during research times and not just a simple reading session

True, on an e-reader at best you can have a couple books at half size (side-by-side), although you can switch between books fast and it remembers where you left off