This is a preference thing rather than a fact. EBooks provide a UX different than the one we grew up with — paper.

This doesn’t hold true for students in school these days.

Just like video. Video tends to put me out like a light — even if I speed it up to play 2x faster, but I’m told that it’s the “new black” these days (or, for those of you who remember, “Plastics!”). Check out any of the online learning providers and the fact that many publishers are now also producing videos in addition to, and sometimes in place of, books.