• Do people still read physical books?
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I'm wondering how many of you actually still read physical books. I tend to like physical books although I've been thinking about buying a kindle. So which is it for you.. [ ] Physical books [ ] Digital books [ ] None
Both, but mostly physical at the moment. I get em real cheap secondhand. Edit: I highly recommend getting an ebook though
I prefer physical books. Having them all on a Kindle would probably be more practical but for some reason I find it hard to read long stretches of text on a screen.
I prefer phisical books. It just feels better for me to just sit and read a book for a few hours rather than stare at a screen.
I prefer physical books, but I can't take my entire collection on a bus.
I had a Nook but barely used it. There's something about the feeling of holding a phsyical book that you just don't get with a tablet, even though the tablet is much easier to take with you and saves lots of shelf space. Not to mention [URL="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/barnes-noble-collectible-editions/bargain-books/_/N-2cnbZ8qb"]Barnes & Noble[/URL] has these awesome collectible books with hardcovers, leafed pages and bookmarks that are part of the binding. They're the only books I still own, I have fifteen of them right now and I'm always buying more. [IMG]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/97270000/97276747.JPG[/IMG]
I read both. Physical books are handy and don't need to be charged, but the sheer capacity an ebook reader has is unbeatable. [editline]12th March 2017[/editline] Physical books are invaluable and will never die out as a medium because of their versatility. The fact that a poor family can buy a book in one generation and it be used six generations down the line to educate yet another era is one of those little magical elements of society that tingles my spine every time I think about it. The idea of information lasting such a long time, indomitable and unmanipulated..
[QUOTE=Adnap;51946060]Both, but mostly physical at the moment. I get em real cheap secondhand. Edit: I highly recommend getting an ebook though[/QUOTE] I have been buying books second hand a lot lately. I recently started going to local book stores.
I actually have a book from 1883 that I bought from the local library. They found it down the back of a desk and it's some generic pageturner nobody has any interest in. But the fact I could simply [b]hold[/b] it.. I felt like Winston Smith with the coral paperweight. To hold in my hands something printed, a legend from another era long before mine, physically present from that era, is fascinating. I'm so scared of when older English dies, or becomes incomprehensible to future generations en masse, as all that information will die with it just like the library of Alexandria.
I buy antique books. My oldest was printed in 1771.
[QUOTE=DOCTOR LIGHT;51946144]I'm so scared of when older English dies, or becomes incomprehensible to future generations en masse, as all that information will die with it just like the library of Alexandria.[/QUOTE] Doubtful, we have [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables"]stories from 600 BC Classical Greece[/URL] that are around today.
I like physical bokks since it's just a book and nothing else, if I try to read on my phone I tend to get distracted.
Yup, prefer physical books mostly because I find them easier to read than e-books, plus they're just a nice thing to hold. There's a charity bookshop in town and most books are around the £1-2 mark, it's great.
[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;51946080]I prefer physical books. Having them all on a Kindle would probably be more practical but for some reason I find it hard to read long stretches of text on a screen.[/QUOTE] This is a non issue if you have an ebook reader with a screen like the kindle paperwhite that uses magnetic ink. I have like 2000 books on mine and the only thing I'm missing out on is the book smell.
[QUOTE=Vassikin;51946112]I had a Nook but barely used it. There's something about the feeling of holding a phsyical book that you just don't get with a tablet, even though the tablet is much easier to take with you and saves lots of shelf space. Not to mention [URL="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/barnes-noble-collectible-editions/bargain-books/_/N-2cnbZ8qb"]Barnes & Noble[/URL] has these awesome collectible books with hardcovers, leafed pages and bookmarks that are part of the binding. They're the only books I still own, I have fifteen of them right now and I'm always buying more. [IMG]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/97270000/97276747.JPG[/IMG][/QUOTE] Back when I was a loser in highschool, I used to lug around the entire works of HP Lovecraft book from that series. Those books don't just look nice, they are sturdy as hell. I carried it with me daily for two years and it still looks great, aside from some dirt on the covers. Those fuckers could survive an Apocalypse. On topic, I find myself preferring audio books, as when I'm working I enjoy listening to something so I don't grow bored. Some books work better in audio format though, usually dialogue heavy books or first person accounts work best. Books like a Clockwork Orange and a Scanner Darkly benefit a lot from hearing everything from one person's account, as it really feels like you're hearing the protagonist telling their own story to you. Books were you really need to digest I save to read physically. The pacing of an audiobook requires you to quickly understand what is going on. That doesn't work as well when you're listening to a breakdown of a war in another country, and you can't familiarize yourself with foreign names and locations because it's trucking along too fast.
[QUOTE=Vassikin;51946112]I had a Nook but barely used it. There's something about the feeling of holding a phsyical book that you just don't get with a tablet, even though the tablet is much easier to take with you and saves lots of shelf space. Not to mention [URL="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/barnes-noble-collectible-editions/bargain-books/_/N-2cnbZ8qb"]Barnes & Noble[/URL] has these awesome collectible books with hardcovers, leafed pages and bookmarks that are part of the binding. They're the only books I still own, I have fifteen of them right now and I'm always buying more. [IMG]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/97270000/97276747.JPG[/IMG][/QUOTE] The B&N collection is top quality stuff and usually cheaper than others. Their KJ Bible is bloody fantastic
Nothing quite like going to GoodWill or a garage sale when you want a new book and buying something random that looks good for like $1. I got Lord Of The Flies for $.75 once. I only read around 2-4 books a year, so not a heavy reader, but if real books ever go away I'll be so sad.
It's been a long time since I read a book of any kind that wasn't a college textbook, but after reading the entirety of Metro 2033 on a Nexus 7, I think I'll stick to physical books. There's a hell of a lot less eyestrain involved.
Why is this a public poll
Digital books hurt my eyes so for actual reading I'm 100% physical book. But I get all my textbooks in digital because they're cheaper that way and I can ctrl-f for shit in them.
It really depends. Something I'm reading for enjoyment it can be either physical or digital but if I need to study and learn from it it has to be physical. I can't concentrate otherwise.
For the most part I vastly prefer having the physical books. There's just something about it that the screen cannot match.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZRZBk6X.jpg[/t] Physical all the way baby. Most of these are second hand, and that's not even a current picture. I have a bunch more now, a lot of the bottom shelf got shifted to my 1890's Steamer Trunk. That's just my non-fiction as well. There's something magical about a physical book. Being able to sit with a pen/pencil and take notes is an amazing thing (and finding sjgnatures/notes left by others as well). Digital just doesn't do it for me.
Thinking of doing a physical collection when I get my own place, for now Audiobooks are amazingly convenient.
e-books unless it's a small sized book I can carry with me all the time
Having a physical collection is neat and a talking point. eBooks/Audiobooks if I'm going somewhere.
[QUOTE=Vassikin;51946112]I had a Nook but barely used it. There's something about the feeling of holding a phsyical book that you just don't get with a tablet, even though the tablet is much easier to take with you and saves lots of shelf space. Not to mention [URL="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/barnes-noble-collectible-editions/bargain-books/_/N-2cnbZ8qb"]Barnes & Noble[/URL] has these awesome collectible books with hardcovers, leafed pages and bookmarks that are part of the binding. They're the only books I still own, I have fifteen of them right now and I'm always buying more. [IMG]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/97270000/97276747.JPG[/IMG][/QUOTE] I got so pissed off, they stopped printing the Narnia book in this series like right before I went to buy it. It was the last one I wanted for my collection too. Weirdly, they seem to periodically "downgrade" some of the books in this collection. Like, I have one that's the complete stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, but now I think all they sell is a shorter "assorted tales and poems" that isn't complete. And I think they still sell the COMPLETE fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, but now they also sell one that only includes the Cthulhu mythos. I don't get why you would want less when you can have more
I have both the complete Lovecraft collection and the Cthulhu mythos. Maybe they're going to phase out the complete collection soon? They also have three different versions of the Star Wars trilogy, the only difference as far as I can tell is the cover. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25802995/ShareX/2017/03/2017-03-12_00-18-11.png[/IMG]
I much prefer reading physical books.
I keep all of my physical text books forever as references, as well as a giant cache of every engineering book on all topics ever on my laptop for use.
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