It's just elitism by people who collect first editions, and/or have the leisure time to sit and read.

You have the same division between readers and audiobook listeners. Like fuck you if you work long hours and you listen to a book in the car when you couldn't otherwise just read. "Stop being poor and come live a life of leisure."

Way I see it, my phone doesn't get heavier with 100 books on it. So my books are ebooks, or audiobooks. I like to run both at the same time, especially if there are a bunch of names to keep track of (e.g. high fantasy).

Books for the vibes. Ebooks and audiobooks for the convenience.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joininIt's not the ebooks that are bad, it's the prison of proprietory technological ecosytems which makes them bad. With Kindles, Amazon can even monitor your reading habits.

Physical books for display and collection, ebooks for convenience.

I love reading books on my phone, so I suppose that makes me a "neither" kind of person.
I don't need epaper, the display on my phone is absolutely amazing, text is sharper than is possible on print. And I don't depend on light for reading, the phone adjusts the brightness of the screen to be suitable in a dark room too.
The convenience of using my phone is unmatched by either e-readers or physical books.
Using an e-book format also makes it possible to easily look up things as you read. And of course it makes it possible to search the book.

Using e-book on a standard mobile device (not a specific e-book reader) also allows you to subscribe to book services similar to Spotify for music. That way you always have access to new books.

Paper books are vastly inferior IMO. They are heavy, and they are cumbersome when you read in bed, they require lighting suitable for reading, and they have no search options, and they also smell.

PS:
All my e-books are without DRM, to me DRM is not an option. So if a book isn't available without DRM, I simply don't read that book. Needless to say I don't use stores/services like Amazon that IMO are completely fucked up.

PPS:
My sister suffer from near chronic migraines, and because of that she prefer paper books. So different strokes for different people.

It depends on the book for me. Most things, it won't really matter to me as long as I can get a format for my Kobo.

I tend to prefer physical for things more along the lines of a textbook.

That being said, I do just prefer the heft and scent and feel of a real book, but I read more on my kobo.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin For me it depends on what is in it. For a "pure" book with only text, ebook is fine. When you have graphs, images, photos, etc: science books, comics, art books, etc, I still do prefer the physical ones.