Yes, because I like reading.
But seriously, ebooks… maybe 8.5 times out of 10. E-ink screens are amazing and just as good as paper, but having your books also available on your phone, and thus always in your pocket, is transformative. So, digital on a platform that syncs between devices. (Bonus points for accomplishing this with an open-source app.)
Do you have any app that you suggest and any store where to actually download the file? Right now I buy physical — I love the feeling of paper — but it’s annoying that I can’t read when outside
I love the Moon+ Reader app. Tons of features. I like that it has a dark mode and you can set the brightness very very low (on OLED) so reading in the dark at night is comfortable.
I think it’s not available for iOS
Not OP but KOReader. It’s an open source e-reader software which runs practically everywhere, even the low-end Kobos. Tons of features. Good UX. Seemless integration to popular hardwares.
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If you’re spending money on a book you may as well get a physical one.
Sometimes. I prefer to use libraries with Libby.
If my library doesn’t have an ebook available, I’ll get an electronic version. Paper books don’t make a lot of sense to me: I only read them once, I rarely lend them out, they seem like a waste of energy for what is essentially just data.
Paper books have a romance. The idea of having a stocked personal library is cool, it just doesn’t fit my lifestyle, personality, or budget.
I’ve tried digital books, but I’ve found that physical books work much better for my brain. I retain more information and can “get lost” in the story, whereas, for some inexplicable reason, digital books being read on a screen kind of “flatten” a story for me. It’s almost like a 3d vs 2d experience for me.
No this totally makes sense to me.
It doesn’t impact my experience of the story, but there is something to having the next page hidden behind the turn and knowing that it’s right there. When I read an ebook it’s like reading an article. The sensation is different and it loses a touch of excitement without that tactile feeling of ‘the next page’. Pages don’t matter in ebooks either. You adjust the text size and the ‘page’ count is suddenly radically different. I measure my progress in chapters or percentages now.
It makes sense to me why that wouldn’t work for some folks.
Physical, i need paper i need it. I cannot read on electronics the words arent real they arent real books; the knowledge is forbidden to me
I adore my Kindle. One of the few things I don’t think Amazon has fucked up. I can get just about any book from anywhere on a whim usually for cheap.
Physical, I just never could make the jump to digital or e reader. If you like reading on your phone or e reader more power to you. My mom loves her e reader b/c she loves to read but time has not been kind to her eyes, being able to make the print any size has been a big help to her.
I work at a computer and find it easier to continue using a screen for reading
However I do also purchase some paper books for when wanting to disconnect for a while
Ebooks wherever possible - except, perhaps, for reference books. I simply find the experience of reading an ebook on something like a kindle so much more pleasant than reading a print book. So much so that I really hate reading print books now.
Physical books! I want to fully own my books not have them be locked by some asshole company. It’s also just nicer to read paper instead of a screen. It’s also easier to carry around a small book instead of a bigger tablet and having to deal with charging yet another device.
If the vendor offers EPUB format you can carry it in a general e-reader or even your phone or computer without them ever being able to lock you out.
Digital. I can adjust fonts/sizes, search for content, skip around, and whether I have 10 or 10,000 books, I can carry them around in my pocket.
I made the mistake of buying an ebook once. I will never make that mistake again.
Fuck drm forever. Physical only. I will never pay for a file I can’t even open using my normal document viewer.
I only read fiction, so I always buy it pirate ebooks unless there’s a special edition of something that I am really excited about. I’ve bought all of Brandon Sanderson’s mystery novels in hardcover for example, and I buy the Stormlight books hardcover as well. I’d love to have the entire cosmere in hardcover, or better yet their special edition leather bound hardcovers (for the ones he’s done it with), but it’s just too expansive and expensive to justify.
In an ideal world, a physical copy includes a digital copy.
Physical. Hardcover if it exists. I like to collect them
I prefer physical books, especially with that new book smell, but I’m pretty out of space so I have gotten books digitally for the last few years.
