Did anyone else love their ebook reader at first but start going back to paper? - Page 5

Critteranne · 03-07-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SimonSays

I still buy plenty of paperback books- actually have just purchased about 5-7 this weekend. I don't think I will ever give up buying paperbacks

I don't even want to count the paperbacks I bought this week.

Most were used, and almost all of the rest were bought with a discount. Some I bought in paper because they were cheaper that way (sigh). Some I bought in paper because they weren't in e-book format yet. Some I bought in paper because they were there.

I even bought a hardback thriller.

But I had a 40% off coupon, and I checked the reviews first to make sure other readers liked it. The reviews were good (which is rare for thrillers), meaning either it's really good or the author has lots of friends on Amazon.

Hellmark · 03-08-2010, 12:08 AM

For me, I've bought exactly one book for pleasure reading since I got my ebook reader, which I then proceeded to get a ebook copy of. End result, I read the book, and the paper copy is still untouched.

Still buy paper when it comes to my school books. The myriad of formats and DRM types make it not worthwhile to go ebook there.

Tattncat · 03-08-2010, 12:41 AM

Did anyone else love their ebook reader at first but start going back to paper?

No, aside from the cost issue (I read a lot of PD & CC works) room to store the books and overall convenience outstrip DTB any day. Since we will be travelling and away from home approx 8 months out of twelve living in a Motor Home space and ease of purchasing/downloading becomes even more of an issue.

I am not likely to be purchasing a DTB in the near future unless it's a Collection book.

_paul_ · 03-08-2010, 03:43 AM

Realized, that I can't to read paper books since bought my Pocket Book 301. Love my old bookshelves with favorite books, but all the same e-reader more convenient.
Most listen audiobooks.

robkat · 03-08-2010, 03:44 AM

Could not store all the Ebooks I possess in paper form.
No intention of going back to paper.

Solicitous · 03-08-2010, 03:48 AM

Well...I still buy all my uni text books as the paper version (most are not available by ebook, and secondly during open book exams electronic devices are not permitted).

With my actual reading for pleasure, since having my ereader I have read one paperback (which I already had on my shelf). To be honest I prefer reading on my ereader. It is easy to hold, isn't heavy or difficult to hold like a paperback (most of my pbooks are 600+ pages). That said I do have a few book series that I will buy the rest of in pbook form.

basschick · 03-08-2010, 05:03 AM

for me, reading is a big part of my lifestyle. i generally prefer ebooks due to convenience, immediate gratification and space issues - our bookcases are packed 2 levels deep and there is no more room. i also prefer the lightness of my cybook - it's lighter and easier to read than many paperbacks and all hardbacks. i will buy a pbook if i really want to read it because i can't get all of a particular author or series in ebooks. pbooks are imo also better for illustrated books.

FlorenceArt · 03-08-2010, 05:51 AM

I still read a lot of paper books, but not because of DRM, although it is an issue.

I have no particular love for paper books, though some French paperbacks are beautiful objects. American books, in whatever form, I'm afraid I find extremely ugly. English ones are better, but I prefer the French design

To me, the only advantage of paper books is that they are reliable. They don't hang or need any power source. And though they do break up sometimes or have pages missing, it hasn't happened to me often, in fact it's very rare in my experience. Unfortunately my Cybook has big problems and I cannot be sure it will start when I hit the Power button. I have been a bit traumatized by that, so at the moment I don't leave home without a paper book in my bag.

Other than the above, I read paper books because :
- I am re-reading a paper book I already had
- there is no e-book version
- there is no reasonably priced e-book version

Since cases 1 and 2 are very frequent with French books, at the moment I read English language books mostly in e-form, and French language books mostly in paper form.

I also have to admit I have a problem with the format French e-books are mostly sold in, namely ePub with Adobe DRM. I don't like it, and I haven't figured out how to remove the DRM yet. That is also a reason I haven't bought any French-language e-books (the English language ones I buy in Mobi format and remove the DRM). But I guess I will have to deal with that problem sooner or later, so I only see it as temporary.

Maggie May · 03-08-2010, 06:43 AM

I'm still in love with my Cybook as much as I ever was. However, I have bought the occasional paperback, but only when the hated geographic restriction prevented me from buying the eBook.

Slan
Mag.

sony_fox · 03-08-2010, 06:56 AM

The reason why I still buy pbooks is bookshops. I love bookshops, and brousing amoungst shelves, finding chance possabilites and interesting sounding/looking books, reading a few pages here and there, that I'd never have thought to search for. I hate online shopping. It's good if you know your store and have a specific product in mind, but for anything else especially serendipitous finds it is horrible. Hence I don't expect to ever stop buying pbooks.

And of course availablity - many older books will never make it into ebook versions.

Reading pbooks - always feels odd after the ebook version. I still prefer the 505 almost a year on it's just more convenient and a nicer reading experience. However I'm not rebuying all the starts of series I own in pbook, and I often enjoy re-reading old favourites. So I do still read pbooks too. Plus of course those impulsive bookshop aquisitions.

mbovenka · 03-08-2010, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SimonSays

I still buy plenty of paperback books- actually have just purchased about 5-7 this weekend. I don't think I will ever give up buying paperbacks

That's interesting; paperbacks are exactly what I *don't* buy anymore. I don't buy many pbooks anymore period (down from 50+ a year), but the few I do buy are hardcovers.

Last was the complete Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Absolutely glorious :-)

Lemurion · 03-08-2010, 10:12 AM

I've been reading ebooks for years - I bought my first portable reading device (an iPaq) about five years ago. I went from the iPaq to a Palm T|X and then to a Sony Reader and now I've added a Droid.

When I bought the Sony Reader, I stopped buying mass market paperback fiction. I still buy hardcovers and graphic novels, but not mass market paperbacks.

I still buy books - I don't think I will ever stop buying paper books - but most of my fiction is now electronic, especially the "disposable" kind that you only ever read once and have no need to keep.

solitarywolf · 03-08-2010, 03:35 PM

I love books. I love shopping for books. I love collecting books. I also love carrying my Sony Reader with me everywhere I don't like carrying my books with me.

Sometimes I will read the E version while out and when I get home, switch to the hardcover edition. The Sony Reader library allows me to search where I am in the book and finding where I am in the book is easy.

I am die-hard fan of my Reader and am very proud of my collection of books I have on my shelf.

-Seth Williams,
San Francisco, CA

ellenoc · 03-08-2010, 04:16 PM

I haven't bought a paper book since I got my Kindle two years ago. I do read paper books because my book budget can't satisfy my appetite for reading, so I still use the library.

jseay · 03-08-2010, 04:48 PM

I've probably bought hundreds of pbooks over the years. They flooded the closets and tables all over my house. I just recently donated many of them to the local library. We had to make space in our home, so I had to part with my pbooks.

I am planning on purchasing a dedicated ereader device in the near future and making the switch to ebooks. I was very impressed with the e ink screen on the Nook when I toyed around with it at Barnes and Noble. Seems like a pleasant way to read ebooks (as opposed to reading on a LCD screen).

I'm hoping the switch to ebooks will save money (lower cost ebooks) as well as space. However, I realize that not every book I will want to read will be available as an ebook or will be practical to read as an ebook.

03-08-2010, 03:43 AM	#64
_paul_ Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: PocketBook301	Realized, that I can't to read paper books since bought my Pocket Book 301. Love my old bookshelves with favorite books, but all the same e-reader more convenient. Most listen audiobooks. Last edited by _paul_; 03-08-2010 at 03:46 AM.

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03-08-2010, 12:08 AM	#62
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	For me, I've bought exactly one book for pleasure reading since I got my ebook reader, which I then proceeded to get a ebook copy of. End result, I read the book, and the paper copy is still untouched. Still buy paper when it comes to my school books. The myriad of formats and DRM types make it not worthwhile to go ebook there.

03-08-2010, 12:41 AM	#63
Tattncat Bookworm Posts: 673 Karma: 1029391 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Device: Nook Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab3, Sony PRS700, Sony PRS505	Did anyone else love their ebook reader at first but start going back to paper? No, aside from the cost issue (I read a lot of PD & CC works) room to store the books and overall convenience outstrip DTB any day. Since we will be travelling and away from home approx 8 months out of twelve living in a Motor Home space and ease of purchasing/downloading becomes even more of an issue. I am not likely to be purchasing a DTB in the near future unless it's a Collection book.

03-08-2010, 03:44 AM	#65
robkat Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 38 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Scotland Device: Sony PRS 300	Could not store all the Ebooks I possess in paper form. No intention of going back to paper.

03-08-2010, 03:48 AM	#66
Solicitous Wizard Posts: 1,434 Karma: 1525776 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: TAS, Australia Device: Astak Pocket Pro (Black), 2 x Kindle WiFi (Graphite), iPod Touch 4G	Well...I still buy all my uni text books as the paper version (most are not available by ebook, and secondly during open book exams electronic devices are not permitted). With my actual reading for pleasure, since having my ereader I have read one paperback (which I already had on my shelf). To be honest I prefer reading on my ereader. It is easy to hold, isn't heavy or difficult to hold like a paperback (most of my pbooks are 600+ pages). That said I do have a few book series that I will buy the rest of in pbook form.

03-08-2010, 05:03 AM	#67
basschick Wizard Posts: 1,096 Karma: 4695691 Join Date: May 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	for me, reading is a big part of my lifestyle. i generally prefer ebooks due to convenience, immediate gratification and space issues - our bookcases are packed 2 levels deep and there is no more room. i also prefer the lightness of my cybook - it's lighter and easier to read than many paperbacks and all hardbacks. i will buy a pbook if i really want to read it because i can't get all of a particular author or series in ebooks. pbooks are imo also better for illustrated books.

03-08-2010, 05:51 AM	#68
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	I still read a lot of paper books, but not because of DRM, although it is an issue. I have no particular love for paper books, though some French paperbacks are beautiful objects. American books, in whatever form, I'm afraid I find extremely ugly. English ones are better, but I prefer the French design To me, the only advantage of paper books is that they are reliable. They don't hang or need any power source. And though they do break up sometimes or have pages missing, it hasn't happened to me often, in fact it's very rare in my experience. Unfortunately my Cybook has big problems and I cannot be sure it will start when I hit the Power button. I have been a bit traumatized by that, so at the moment I don't leave home without a paper book in my bag. Other than the above, I read paper books because : - I am re-reading a paper book I already had - there is no e-book version - there is no reasonably priced e-book version Since cases 1 and 2 are very frequent with French books, at the moment I read English language books mostly in e-form, and French language books mostly in paper form. I also have to admit I have a problem with the format French e-books are mostly sold in, namely ePub with Adobe DRM. I don't like it, and I haven't figured out how to remove the DRM yet. That is also a reason I haven't bought any French-language e-books (the English language ones I buy in Mobi format and remove the DRM). But I guess I will have to deal with that problem sooner or later, so I only see it as temporary.

03-08-2010, 06:43 AM	#69
Maggie May Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,907 Karma: 87755439 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ireland Device: CYbook Gen3 and Sony PRS 3505 Kindle 3 G Nexus 7 iPad	I'm still in love with my Cybook as much as I ever was. However, I have bought the occasional paperback, but only when the hated geographic restriction prevented me from buying the eBook. Slan Mag.

03-08-2010, 06:56 AM	#70
sony_fox Zealot Posts: 109 Karma: 84 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Manchester Device: Kobo Auroa H2O	The reason why I still buy pbooks is bookshops. I love bookshops, and brousing amoungst shelves, finding chance possabilites and interesting sounding/looking books, reading a few pages here and there, that I'd never have thought to search for. I hate online shopping. It's good if you know your store and have a specific product in mind, but for anything else especially serendipitous finds it is horrible. Hence I don't expect to ever stop buying pbooks. And of course availablity - many older books will never make it into ebook versions. Reading pbooks - always feels odd after the ebook version. I still prefer the 505 almost a year on it's just more convenient and a nicer reading experience. However I'm not rebuying all the starts of series I own in pbook, and I often enjoy re-reading old favourites. So I do still read pbooks too. Plus of course those impulsive bookshop aquisitions.

03-08-2010, 10:12 AM	#72
Lemurion eReader Posts: 2,750 Karma: 4968470 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Note 5; PW3; Nook HD+; ChuWi Hi12; iPad	I've been reading ebooks for years - I bought my first portable reading device (an iPaq) about five years ago. I went from the iPaq to a Palm T\|X and then to a Sony Reader and now I've added a Droid. When I bought the Sony Reader, I stopped buying mass market paperback fiction. I still buy hardcovers and graphic novels, but not mass market paperbacks. I still buy books - I don't think I will ever stop buying paper books - but most of my fiction is now electronic, especially the "disposable" kind that you only ever read once and have no need to keep.

03-08-2010, 03:35 PM	#73
solitarywolf Ink Drinker Posts: 224 Karma: 347666 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle Scribe, Kindle 2021, Ipad Pro, iPhone Pro	I love books. I love shopping for books. I love collecting books. I also love carrying my Sony Reader with me everywhere I don't like carrying my books with me. Sometimes I will read the E version while out and when I get home, switch to the hardcover edition. The Sony Reader library allows me to search where I am in the book and finding where I am in the book is easy. I am die-hard fan of my Reader and am very proud of my collection of books I have on my shelf. -Seth Williams, San Francisco, CA

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03-08-2010, 04:16 PM	#74
ellenoc Author Posts: 87 Karma: 501132 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Colorado Device: Kindle	I haven't bought a paper book since I got my Kindle two years ago. I do read paper books because my book budget can't satisfy my appetite for reading, so I still use the library.

03-08-2010, 04:48 PM	#75
jseay Devotional Writer Posts: 25 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Motorola Droid	I've probably bought hundreds of pbooks over the years. They flooded the closets and tables all over my house. I just recently donated many of them to the local library. We had to make space in our home, so I had to part with my pbooks. I am planning on purchasing a dedicated ereader device in the near future and making the switch to ebooks. I was very impressed with the e ink screen on the Nook when I toyed around with it at Barnes and Noble. Seems like a pleasant way to read ebooks (as opposed to reading on a LCD screen). I'm hoping the switch to ebooks will save money (lower cost ebooks) as well as space. However, I realize that not every book I will want to read will be available as an ebook or will be practical to read as an ebook.