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Originally Posted by Iridal
It's the same for me. I absolutely love my Sony and I have ordered a Kindle which will arrive this week, but I still buy pbooks. I just love to have a book in my hands every once in a while.
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Awesome - I was beginning to think everyone here had converted almost entirely to ebooks, haha.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I think you'll find you'll use it* 100% of the time when you're out, and 95% of the time at home.
I very rarely read a physical book now.
*For reading books - not counting newspapers and glossy magazines, of course.
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Well, I very rarely read newspapers or magazines anyway. Honestly, though, I've thought about it a lot and I think my original estimate is going to be more or less accurate. Just because a lot of other people have ended up using ereaders exclusively doesn't mean I will end up doing that too.
The thing about print books from libraries is that they're still the only way you can read most books for free, and with a few exceptions (i.e. classics, library ebooks, or I guess piracy) that won't change.
Even now, except at library sales, I basically don't buy any books because I think I
might like them. I read them from the library first, and if I absolutely love something I buy it in hardcover. So in order to use my reader for 95% of all my reading, I'd have to end up either changing what I read, or buying significantly more books than I do at the moment. (I'm sure I'll buy a few ebooks, for convenience, but it would cost a fortune to buy everything I read before I read it.)
And I think I'll probably buy close to the same amount of hardcovers even after I get my ereader, because I just like the feeling of them. I like the cover art, the jacket text, the fonts and typography that are used, the fact that authors are able to sign them. I like being able to physically flip through them, to sometimes physically put a marker in various scenes and physically see where each of them are in the story. (I don't know, perhaps part of this "obsession" is because I'm an aspiring author myself.)
I do think it would be interesting to keep track over the next year of what books I read, what formats I read them in, and how many books of each format I buy. I can make another post to share the results if I remember.
And even though I spent a lot of this post defending physical books, I'm not trying to be anti-ebook or anything; obviously they have plenty of their own advantages, and if I didn't believe that I wouldn't be eagerly waiting for my Kindle's scheduled delivery on Friday.