I am now, finally—after a year of withdrawal—and fully, switching to ebooks and ditching my paperback collecting habit for good. I can now confidently say that I am so over with paperback and I am not buying one even if my life depends on it. Weird that it took me a year to get over it but I am happy I finally did and became adapted with ebooks with such ease.

I highly recommend book-loving seniors to try ebooks. If you are thinking of doing same, I tell you now, you won’t be disappointed. Here are my 10 good reasons why I love ebooks so much, I could have passed as an ebook reader salesperson in no time!

1. It is very eco-friendly. Truth be told, this is exactly why I made a decision to switch to ebook even if I was not quite sure I could adjust to it after getting used to paperbacks for years. I am pro-environment awareness, if you must notice. I may not be the most successful advocate but I make it a point to lessen my footprint whenever possible. The simple logic is, if seniors will switch to ebooks, enewspapers or even emagazines, there will be lesser need to cut trees and more chances for them to grow.
2. Ebooks won’t take too much space. Actually it won’t take any space in your house at all if you have a little know-how storing your files online. For nontechie ones, you can either download your ebooks straight to your ereaders or save it on your computer to be uploaded on a later date. No clutter at all.
3. They are portable, you can take them anywhere without breaking your back in doing so. Think 300 titles you carry with you wherever you would like to go. With ebooks, you don’t have to worry carrying a thousand pages worth of novel to the beach without looking like an old school librarian on a break.
4. Be resourceful and find free classic titles online—legally. There are many sites offering free ebooks legally online, and they are really good too, not just your unknown and budding authors. I am talking about the likes of “The Art of War” and “Anne of Green Gables”.
5. You can “bookmark” an ebook and not do any damage at all. Say goodbye to dog-eared copies. You can make annotations, highlights, and look-ups without harming the ebook itself!
6. Ebooks are forever. It’s kind of hard to do irreversible damage to an ebook, as opposed to a book which you need to handle with care.
7. Throw away those glasses if you are not comfortable with it! Ebooks can be adjusted to sizes that suit your eyes best. Bet your best book can’t do that!
8. You can share them around -  just make sure you only share those copies which are not legally bound by copyright or else it is considered as illegal.
9. Ebooks are normally cheaper. I don’t know about some Amazon titles but ebooks are normally cheaper than paperbacks. Some authors are now selling their work directly from their websites at discounted rates.
10. Longer excerpts of published novels are free in ebook form. You can now read as much as the publisher is willing to show and decide if the copy is worth buying.