Nothing electronic shall ever replace, in my humble hovel, a real book! I may be old school, but books, my glider rocker, and either sunlight, moonlight, or electric light (incandescent bulbs only, the others are not in my budget), and a cup of tea or coffee, and I’m fine.
You can’t break a printed book. It will not have software issues, battery fires, or broken in frustration glass screens.
The Kindle has for me. Try it, perhaps, like me, you'll find it much, much better, and wind up reading many times more than before. The advantages I've found (in no particular order) are: (1) The Kindle is very light and much easier to hold than a book; you won't know how much of a difference that makes until you try it for a couple of days. (2) You can hold more than 1500 books on a Kindle, and each book stays right on the page where you left off. This allows me to easily read three or four books at the same time. (3) The type size is adjustable, a great benefit for those of us who need glasses. (4) The Kindle covers either have integrated lights, or, as with the Kindle Fire, the screen itself is illuminated. This makes it very cozy for reading at night. (5) You can search for and download a new book in less than a minute. Sometimes, I'd be reading a book review and decide I'd like to read that book, and it's there on my Kindle in less time than it took to read the review. (6) There are very nice leather covers for the Kindles that look like antique bindings and add hardly anything to the weight. This allows me to take the Kindle with me anywhere, and I do. (7) Amazon lets you to have up to six Kindles on one account, all loaded with the same books without an extra fee. This allows you to have a Kindle everywhere, at home, at work (for lunch), or where ever, and each Kindle automatically synchronizes to the last page you read on any other Kindle.
BTW, I've had my Kindles for three years, and have never had a sofware failure, a broken screen, or a malfunction of any kind.
There are some advantages an ebook reader. Being able to carry multiple tomes and news sources for one. Another is the built in dictionary. Highlight a word, and it look it up.
Okay, the dictionary can be sorely lacking, and very annoying when handling adverbs.