Ok, people may argue that electronic reading may replace paperbacks, but that's just not true. Why should it be? I mean, with the tree replacement, electronics should actually take more resources. More portable? Well, partly true, but I don't see why books should be more portable. And even if they are too bulky for most, that's no reason to place them lower then electronics! We've been comfortable with books for so long, why should we replace them now?

I'll be on team one!

Paper Books are better than Electronic books because...

1. People are simply more familiar with paper books. This may change, but at the moment the people who are going to be buying lots of books are the people who love books, and it's easier to love physical paper books -- books that are familiar because they have been made and read and cherished since the printing press was invented -- and it is harder to love electronic books that, while kind of cool, are still new and unfamiliar. Electronic books are also physically less forgiving than paper books, they are made of metal and plastic rather than the remains of living, growing trees.

2. Like Pete said, although electronic books are supposed to be "greener" and help get less trees cut down to make paper for the books, it also takes a lot of resources to make electronic books, and even though one electronic book can hold the equivalent of many paper books, the fact that the plastic used to make the electronic book will take hundreds of years to biodegrade, along with all the toxic waste created whenever electronics are made makes paper books (especially ones made from recycled paper) look better for the environment than ever.

3. Also, there have been studies done (I don't remember what studies exactly (oh, how convenient...), but they were mentioned in Muse, another magazine by the Cricket magazine company, so I think that's good enough research for this debate) that show that information that is read on a screen is harder to remember than information read from physical paper books.

I can't think of any more reasons at the moment, so I'll just post this for now. If there aren't enough people (a.k.a. none) for team two, I might be able to switch sides and argue against my own arguments...