1. Books are inexpensive and very transportable.  e-books are great, but many folks don’t like carrying around an iPad, tablet, or e-reader with them everywhere they go.
2. Nobody will break into your car or truck to steal a paperback book.
3. When you finish a paperback book, you can pass it to someone else to read at little to no cost.
4. Books don’t have batteries; nor do they shatter when you drop them.
5. There is a psychological trigger associated with the turning of a page that cannot be duplicated digitally.
6. Books last (practically) forever. Paper is the only transportable medium in the worlds existence to have lasted centuries, and still be readable today.
7. Books make great gifts.