The e-book conspiracy

**Slightly tongue in cheek. Calling it a conspiracy, at least..... **Visual aids ahead What if there was a conspiracy to do away with the printed book and to force we readers to be reliant on e-books?   I was at first totally dead set against e-books. I have mellowed a bit, and actually read a lot of them these days, but nowhere near the amount of physical books. There is just something about the feel of a book in your hands, being able to leaf through it, re-read favorite parts, to see books on your bookshelves, pull them off and leaf through them.....you miss all that with e-books.  And yeah, I get the fact that they are convenient. I currently have 1588 books on my Kindle. No, that is not an exaggeration. And a huge majority were free, and a huge majority will never get read because I have so many physical books to read.  And the idea of paying much for an e-book boggles my mind. I have paid a couple dollars on rare occasion, and 99 cents more often....but to pay $8 and up as I see a lot of prices.....man. If I am paying that, I want a physical book, not an electroic file I cannot hold in my hands. The reading I do on my Kindle fire is primarily at work in my car while waiting to go in. I go plenty early to get a good parking place, and the Kindle Fire lights up, making it easy to see if it is dark or not quite light enough to read a regular book. So I actually subscribed to Kindle Unlimited and read books on it before work and on breaks. But the whole push for e-books frustrates me. Amazon, especially pushes e-books over physical books.  Here are the promised visual aids