Ebooks are just totally kick ass. For one, you can get them for free (pirated), you can carry them around on a PDA instead of having to log around big books, you can search relevent info quickly instead of having to go to an index and look them up. Saves you time from going to the book store and finding them, and you can look at multiple ebooks of a similar subject and find which one you like the most if indeed you decide you want to purchase a hard copy.