"Romantic" and "useful" are your emotional response and opinion. Others have different values so they react differently. Since other people don't have all the same values as you, presenting your views as fact doesn't illuminate much.

You also compared your favorite parts of one medium with your least favorite parts of another. Why not ask yourself your favorite parts of ebooks and your worst parts of books also? You'll have a more valid comparison then.

I point this out because this pattern of comparing things is so common -- confusing opinion with objective truth and comparing the best of A with the worst of B -- and we benefit from avoiding the pattern. I didn't mean just to single javanix out and I hope this came out respectfully.