I'm been slowly migrating from reading primarily hardcover books to ebooks. It's also nice to not have to move so many books around every time I change living situations 😅.
Physical feels way better, but sometimes I can't wait for it to arrive, so I just get the ebook. Physical books take room but it's just more enjoyable to me.
I read both physical and digital books. My preference is for physical ones. Why?
• I don't feel the book in my hands with the digital version.
• Can quickly skim the whole physical book.
• I know where I'm at (beginning, half-way, near the end...) on the physical book. With the digital ones, I don't have this reference.
Reading physical books would mean to not being able to make use of all those enhancements such dark mode via Dark Reader, collapsing parentheses via Parentheses Folding and experimentally setting fixations via Bionic Reading.
For non-fiction, I prefer ebooks because I can take highlights on Kindle. But for fiction books, I prefer physical versions.
Also, if I really like a non-fiction book then I get its physical version as well, just so I can make some notes on the margins as well when I am re-reading them.
Physical feels way better, but sometimes I can't wait for it to arrive, so I just get the ebook. Physical books take room but it's just more enjoyable to me.
I read both physical and digital books. My preference is for physical ones. Why?
• I don't feel the book in my hands with the digital version.
• Can quickly skim the whole physical book.
• I know where I'm at (beginning, half-way, near the end...) on the physical book. With the digital ones, I don't have this reference.
Not reading physical books any more.
Reading physical books would mean to not being able to make use of all those enhancements such dark mode via Dark Reader, collapsing parentheses via Parentheses Folding and experimentally setting fixations via Bionic Reading.
This would be kind of a hard time tbh.
Completed switched to Kindle some 5 years ago, and never looked back. It took me a year to get used to reading on a device though.
Actually, it's a mix of both.
For non-fiction, I prefer ebooks because I can take highlights on Kindle. But for fiction books, I prefer physical versions.
Also, if I really like a non-fiction book then I get its physical version as well, just so I can make some notes on the margins as well when I am re-reading them.
I stopped reading physical books in July of 2010 and never looked back. I love ebooks and digital reading.