I definitely get a better connection to a paper book than I do my reader. I also vastly prefer being able to flip back a few pages to remember something that was written that I didn’t catch when I first read it, as opposed to fumbling through some UI thing to try bookmarking my current page and then scrolling or tapping back to whenever that thing was said.

That said, a reader is better for the environment (no trees were killed and no gas was used to drive a heavy book to either a store or my house). It’s also way easier to carry it on a plane and to travel when you are just at the end of a book, whereas before I had to bring two books with me. Finally, it’s easier on my hand muscles holding a 1200 page hardcover when reading in my hammock.