How do you prefer to read?

[MakeDigitalLove]

Do you like to read with a physical book or a device?

I have a device as well that I have a few books on right now and though I don’t mind it I definitely prefer a physical book.

 

[Cormac135]

Still books, i've got a Kindle with thousands of free books on it, haven't read more than five of them.

 

[HoodedRat]

I read half and half. I tend to read fiction on an ereader or tablet, but I prefer to read non-fiction, especially anything that I am studying, in physical book form. In text books I like to underline, cross-reference, and fill the margins and inside covers with with my notes and comments; that's much harder to do with an ebook.

 

[PalacePaul]

Always the traditional books for me

 

[Kulindahr]

I've been going more and more to my Nook just due to storage considerations. If I had all the books physically that I have on there they'd cover eight or so feet of shelf space.

Though I still wish someone would make a reader that opens like a book!

 

[HoodedRat]

I just checked my laptop library storage; I've got 85.4 GB of ebooks, mostly as epub files and PDFs. I dread to think how much shelf space they would take up. Just as well that I don't have them in physical form as I haven't got any wall space left for more bookcases. I will never get around to reading most of them before i die, but I just can't bear to delete them.

 

[ronboy]

I have both popular readers for my tablet.
I rarely use them.
Nothing beats the physical experience of holding a book in your hands and reading it.
Tablet reading is just not as satisfying an experience for me.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

As a side-note to the thread. I could never do audio-books. I need to be reading it myself, I can’t dive into my imagination with a book if I were to listen to some one else read it.

 

[Alistair]

Hardcover books mostly but I get the odd e-book here and there on my kindle.

 

[Telstra]

i like to look at nice pictures like in the magazine .

 

[belamyi]

 

[Vannie]

Most of the time a physical book.Rarely on a tablet.I love the way a new book smells....the stiffness in my hands But..seriously,I will get some used political books from abebooks.I just don't wanna spend the money on new books that I will only read once.We have so much stuff.

 

[belamyi]

I didn't know cabbages could be read... didn't find one single image googling for that.

 

[Vannie]

Do schools still have book mobiles come around? I used to love the smell of the brand new book walking in.

 

[belamyi]

^ That's new to me: I knew of kids who loved glue, paint, nail polish... never fresh ink on new printworks.

 

[LeicsDom]

Do you like to read with a physical book or a device?

I have a device as well that I have a few books on right now and though I don’t mind it I definitely prefer a physical book.

A paper book every time. I love to see a bookcase full of tomes I have read

 

[LeicsDom]

Do schools still have book mobiles come around? I used to love the smell of the brand new book walking in.

When I was growing up we lived quite a way from a public library but a mobile library pitched up every Friday, plugged into the lamp standard and was open for business for two hours. I remember it was parked on a hill so you sort of ran down to the front of the bus LOL

 

[belamyi]

 

[LeicsDom]

As a side-note to the thread. I could never do audio-books. I need to be reading it myself, I can’t dive into my imagination with a book if I were to listen to some one else read it.

I have used audio books on long car journeys. very pleasing

 

[belamyi]

The worst thing about audiobooks is the annoying, totally wrong intonations of readers: professional actors are the worst.