An e-ink reader has a much better battery life (1), and in particular fixes point 10 – although there are other “apps” on a Kindle, it is basically a dedicated book-reading device.

I think that 8 is debatable – I only started using a highlighting pen in physical books _after_ I started on the Kindle. And there is much more space available on an e-reader.

4 is true _if_ you can remember _which_ book you need (and that book hasn’t succumbed to 6, although e-book lending would have the same problem)

I’ve not really used bookmarking in the Kindle app, but I’m guessing 2 is true.

9 is a 50/50. You get a % and a progress bar on the Kindle app.

Presumably you’re going to counter with 10 reasons why an e-book is better than a physical book? Can I throw out a mention of https://read.amazon.com as a great plus of being able to access all your books wherever you are?

With digital books, I’m saving resources in at least three ways: I save the paper and ink with which they’re printed, the transport costs involved in their shipping from publisher to wholesaler to bookstore, and the money the Lord has entrusted me with, which I then use for other things like my multiple child sponsorships. Digital books occupy no additional space, which is important given that I currently live in a 9′ × 9′ room in a boardinghouse. When I travel around the country, all my Kindle books, iTunes audiobooks, university e-texts, and PDFs are stored on my netbook, and I don’t have to lug a suitcase full of books whenever I travel. If it’s the content of books that I’m really after, why would I waste resources by insisting on a particular format?

Living in New Zealand, a long way from the US and UK publishing houses where most English-language books are produced (including almost all Christian books), there’s quite a high shipping premium with printed books, as well as a long lead-in time after I order them. I’d rather save both money and time by cutting out shipping altogether. With digital books, I can buy a book one minute and be reading it (or listening to it if it’s an audiobook) the next. Maybe if you live in the same city or state as the publisher, you might do things differently.

But seriously–I love my physical library and my digital library (over 6000 volumes in each). There are strengths and weaknesses with each format. My biggest problem is that I’m finding myself digitally duplicating many of the physical books I’ve already read many times, just for the search and copy/paste functions.