Books are superior to the Kindle

Sorry I missed a round.1. "You can store a lot of books on it"This is just as much a disadvantge as an advantage. A kindle is so easily lost or stolen. You could leave it in a coffee shop, leave it in a hotel, lose it while travelling, get it stolen at school, get it stolen if your house is robbed, get it pick pocked, it could fall off the top of a bookshelf, it could fall in the bath, it could fall in the swimming pool- the list goes on and on! Although all these things could happen just as easily to a book- when you do leave your copy of the Da Vinci Code in a coffee shop- that's just it. You've lost one book. You leave your kindle in a coffee shop and you could easily have just lost 80 books. That would cost so much to replace, and you've lost SO many books as opposed to just one. We all have our disorganised moments where we leave a book in a hotel, or something like that. The kindle just doesn't cater for situations like this, which is a major flaw in the machine. 1. "can buy books even while you are busy doing something like driving."People shouldn't be on an electronic device while driving! They should have their eyes on the road!2. "It can hold together if dropped from a reasonable height, unlike books."Proof please. If you drop a book from a three meter height, the cover may bend but it will still be readable. Try reading a kindle after a three meter drop. As much as a book can become disfigured- it is still readable; the words are still there in black and white. Once a kindle has smashed, you can't read off it again. The text is gone.One of the main reasons why I beleive that books are superior to kindles is that kindles just dont cater for everyone! A kindle is prety much for people who make a good income (or their parents do) and are between the ages of 10 and 50. Who's going to go out and buy a kindle for their 4 year old son? He won't be able to fingure out how to buy books or select one to read. It's just not kitted out for children. A book, however, is. You can buy a book for a kid as young as one. Imagine teaching your daughter how to read on a kindle. It's just impractical (not to mention the lack of colour. I'm sure kids in the future will learn just as much from colourful books as kids today and in the past did).But, there's also the other end of the spectrum. The elderly. I love visiting my town library when I'm out and about and don't have much to do. Libraries are free, which means that anyone can sign up for a card which takes about 6 minutes, and then they have unlimited access to books, as long as they dont have more than 12 out at a time (the rules for my library). The library in my town really caters for the elderly. My grandma loves taking out books, and I don't think she'd be too happy if she had to spend a huge portion of her already low pension on a machine, and then spend MORE money buying every book she wants to read! Yes, eBooks are cheaper than normal books, but certainly not cheaper than library books!Another reason why I beleive that books are better than kindles is that books are much more versatile! Don't you remember when you were a kid and you'd read the Mr Men books, or those ones where you feel the "fluffy duck" and the "scaly lizard". The colourful illustrations, the fun covers- now imagine reading Dick and Jane in black and white on a cold hard tablet. It's just not the same. A book has a personality. It could be old and dusty, new and shiny, they can have torn old dust covers and yellowing pages. A book is a work of art. A kindle is not. Thanks for reading, I look forward to your rebuttal.