http://www.deccanherald.com/content/204348/ebooks-charm-their-own.html
A nice little detail about eBooks that had escaped me until now is how you can buy plenty of them, let them all pile up, and not notice or bother about them. You won’t feel bad that you haven’t read them all, unlike the unread paper-and-ink books on your bookshelf.
And here’s the best part: you can just dip into an eBook here and there, a few pages or a chapter, minimise it and feel you’ve sort of read it. You won’t feel guilty about buying more because the unread pile is as good as invisible.
As a writer, and not just as a reader, you can feel pretty liberated too: you don’t have to think of every book project that you embark on as being a hefty contribution, an ambitious tome. It can be, like the 17,000-word How a Book is Born (a Vanity Fair eBook), a tantalising little book. Perhaps not easier to write, but perhaps more compelling; and for the reader, more beckoning.
When I bought my first eBook I actually felt annoyed: You see, I didn’t think I would need one. With so many physical books to choose from (and so many unread from my shelves) in a bookstore, why did I feel compelled to buy an eBook? Because this book that I wanted so much was available only as an eBook. I did not think that there would be books I would want to read that were only eBooks. Because: a) I thought all good books would be both printed and digital, b) that a digital-only book would hardly be the kind of book I could not do without, and c) that a writer I liked would hardly be the kind of author who would publish something only as an eBook. Wrong.