I do not believe books are an obsolete medium, even though there are several alternatives to books, people still rely on them. Teachers, students and people who read for fun are still purchasing books and will continue to do so. Although technology has created e-books, kindles and nooks people still buy books. Yes, e-readers are easy to carry and they have other benefits like WiFi, an e-reader will never give you the same experience a book can. Personally, I have used both books and e-readers and I find it much more engaging and easy to concentrate when I use a traditional book rather than an e-reader. I am not saying there are people who love technology and will purchase one of these just to keep in the collection and use it, but there are also millions of other readers like me who prefer a simple book in which annotations can be done easily and there is no way it will break down. The fact is, if you are the kind of person that loves to read books or curl up and do some reading, the experience you get of smelling the printed pages, grabbing the book in your hands and flipping the pages will never be compared to scrolling or tapping ‘next’ on an e-reader.
Just like every other piece of technology e-readers have advantages too because they do not occupy too much space (compared to a 1000 page book), they are easy to carry, there is WiFi connection in them and you can purchase an e-book at any time. But, just like there are positives there are also negatives to these and owning a technological object means you need to always be careful with it by constantly making sure you keep it safe, it does not fall anywhere and giving it maintenance services like cleaning it up and emptying the memory every now and then. Books do not require most of the things mentioned above since they are easy to place, do not require maintenance and do not have a limited memory space.
I do not believe books are an obsolete medium, even though there are several alternatives to books, people still rely on them. Teachers, students and people who read for fun are still purchasing books and will continue to do so. Although technology has created e-books, kindles and nooks people still buy books. Yes, e-readers are easy to carry and they have other benefits like WiFi, an e-reader will never give you the same experience a book can. Personally, I have used both books and e-readers and I find it much more engaging and easy to concentrate when I use a traditional book rather than an e-reader. I am not saying there are people who love technology and will purchase one of these just to keep in the collection and use it, but there are also millions of other readers like me who prefer a simple book in which annotations can be done easily and there is no way it will break down. The fact is, if you are the kind of person that loves to read books or curl up and do some reading, the experience you get of smelling the printed pages, grabbing the book in your hands and flipping the pages will never be compared to scrolling or tapping ‘next’ on an e-reader. 
Just like every other piece of technology e-readers have advantages too because they do not occupy too much space (compared to a 1000 page book), they are easy to carry, there is WiFi connection in them and you can purchase an e-book at any time. But, just like there are positives there are also negatives to these and owning a technological object means you need to always be careful with it by constantly making sure you keep it safe, it does not fall anywhere and giving it maintenance services like cleaning it up and emptying the memory every now and then. Books do not require most of the things mentioned above since they are easy to place, do not require maintenance and do not have a limited memory space. 
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