[RodRiquez]

I still buy paper books.
In fact I dont buy ANY ebooks, at all, I only use ones I can get for free (by any means) which means I use Gutenberg a lot.

In the past 20 years I been burned so many times by digital content being taken away, that I don't purchase any digital content now unless I can download it & keep the files with no DRM.

Its already happened to me on Kobo where I got a book from the store & its since been removed from the store & auto-deleted from my device. I didnt even get around to reading it.

So I tend to buy a nicely bound book, such as one of the Lovecraft ones, & then source a .epub version. Now I can enjoy reading the physical book on a comfy afternoon at home. & still read it digitally in bed or on the train.

Also there's plenty of non-novel books that I buy physical. Such as Role Playing Game books that dont work well in digital formats on e-readers. So anything published in PDF really, that is not a good experience on e-readers. Any reference book etc, you need physical copies so you can quickly flick through & pass it around.

And then there's esoteric books & old books which demand to be owned physically because of their beauty, history & quality. There's an experience there; holding an old book, feeling the texture of the paper, seeing the imperfections of the ink, using the bound ribbon, admiring the details of the colour plates. Those things cant be conveyed by any device.