Comment by martindbp

You're exactly right, but I'm sorry this is the forum for tech skeptics/haters now. That said, I think learning to scribble some notes is still a useful skill, but no need to write pages of essays by hand, it's pointless. And as for paper books, I've gone back and forth. For some reason I enjoy reading paper books more and I can easily share them with friends. I think you do get a better sense of the temporal/spatial structure of the book this way, so I prefer it for non-fiction. But it's still great to be able to download any book in existence as well, I still read mostly ebooks.