Easier to carry a tablet around than 3 cubic feet of books.
Easier to update a tablet than buy/ship/distribute paper books.
Cheaper to buy e-books than paper.
E-books can be more dynamic (videos/music/etc where appropriate) than inert paper.
I’m going paperless. No problem with giving the kids tablets IF they will be responsible enough to care for them and use them wisely; break it? here’s your paper copy of the text, carry that around kid.
and if the cloud goes down? the electricity is off? Real lawyers are upping their paper docs because of this. This has made us archivists and record keepers
Aren’t you interested in content?