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I’ve been reading ebooks since my Palm m500, and I haven’t noticed any difference in my reading habits. I was the sort of person that took a couple of dozen books on a 2 week beach holiday and still ran out of reading material after 10 days or so (I could get through a standard mass-market paperback in 2-4 hours; doorstops took longer).
These days I mostly read ebooks as I have a 55 minute train journey on my daily commute, and it’s a lot more convenient to have the iPad, the iPhone and my Icarus with me than a couple of paperbacks (let alone hardbacks). In terms of buying habits, we’re talking about 99% electronic; I very rarely buy hard copy for reading - I generally only buy RPG books in hard copy for favourite systems (systems I’m unlikely to play I buy PDFs).
What I do notice is that on weekdays I prefer reading short stories or anthologies, and I reserve longer reads for weekends when I can spend an afternoon reading, rather than under an hour.
The one thing I would recommend is getting a device that supports collections or tags; it’s so much easier to find something when you think ‘I fancy this genre for my next read’. Also, if you read a lot of series, you need something that displays series info as well (otherwise you have to fiddle around in Calibre setting up output formats).
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