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View Poll Results: Of the books you read, what percent are ebooks? | |||
0% - all of my reading is done with paper books |
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2 | 0.67% |
1-25% |
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19 | 6.35% |
26-50% |
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14 | 4.68% |
51-75% |
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20 | 6.69% |
76-99% |
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136 | 45.48% |
100% - all of my reading is done with ebooks |
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106 | 35.45% |
What's an ebook? |
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0 | 0% |
Who cares - I love voting in polls |
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2 | 0.67% |
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It goes without saying that my % of ebooks would continue to rise in the future depending on availability at my local libraries. |
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For reading almost exclusively ebooks (the main exception, which will go away soon, is I'll usually pick up a paperback when I'm going to fly). There are some kinds of books I still prefer as paper: travel books, cookbook, some reference books--I've tried these as ebooks but it just doesn't work that well for me.
In the rare case that I really want to read something and it's only available in paper, I'm not going to let the format determine what I do or don't read. This used to be more of an issue, not much I read now that doesn't come out as an ebook. |
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![]() I'm in the 90%+ ebooks category, but I still have to have the paper editions of a couple of authors. I own everything That I could get my hands on that Stephen King has written. With his last one - I bought in both paper and digital editions. I actually read the digital one - mostly because of the weight and carrying it back and forth to work- but I couldn't resist adding the paper version to my shelf. And my college textbooks - I still get paper, just because I do a lot of flipping back and forth, which is too much of a PITA to do with a digital version for me. Last edited by Pati; 11-16-2013 at 06:08 PM. |
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I'm currently researching Georgian history and there are some awesome paper books from the British Library that aren't available as ebooks - so this has pushed my percentage up on paperbooks.
Fiction 100 % ebook. |
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I subscribe to a few digital publications that come out in .txt & .pdfs, and i convert a lot of online content into epubs to read on an e-ink screen, but as for books, i read mostly paper ones. This is mainly because i don't live in the countries whose books i read. Region restrictions on purchasing, incompatible/secret/proprietary formats and digital restrictions management really dampen my enthusiasm for ebooks.
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Maybe 5% ebook at most, the novelty has pretty much worn off for me.
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About 90% ebooks.
I buy the occasional pbook at 2nd hand bookstores or carboot sales. Having bought a brand new pbook for years as far as I remember. |
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100% For me. . .
I will occasionally read a pbook if my wife (who won't read an ebook) buys something and recommends it. but I never buy anything but ebooks for personal use.
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That started to change when Amazon got into this game, and in 2010, we saw a veritable explosion of available books, both high-quality free to low-cost PD material, and mainstream novels. Now in 2013, everything I ever wanted is available as an ebook, save for a few, very old titles that'll probably be never made into an ebook. (I can't actually find new or second hand paper versions on Amazon. I expect the books to be out of print.) eBooks are here to stay, especially if the industry drops DRM and takes care about backward compatibility (read old formats on new devices) and forward compatibility (provide a reliable way to convert old formats into new formats for new devices). If a format survives for 25 years (starting with EPUB, today), one could get by an entire life with 2-3 formats, only converting twice: EPUB2->EPUB3->EPUB4, or EPUB2->EPUB3, and EPUB2->EPUB4. Last edited by Katsunami; 11-20-2013 at 12:33 PM. |
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They're a better solution for my reading needs, so I read electronically whenever possible. I'm sure I'd go back to paper almost entirely if I found them a novelty, too. |
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I'd see ebooks as less of a novelty/use them more often if I actually saved any money doing so. If there's only a couple dollar difference I'd much rather have a physical item. It's nifty technology but I really only use it for things that I can only get in ebook form.
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