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I only buy eBooks. If I buy a pBook backlist book, I cut-and-convert it. 21 25.61%
I prefer eBooks, but will buy pbooks that don't have an eBook option. 38 46.34%
I buy a pretty even mix of eBooks and pBooks, based on certain criteria (price, availability, etc.). 20 24.39%
I prefer pBooks, and only buy eBooks under certain circumstances. 3 3.66%
I only buy pBooks and I mostly come to Mobile Reads for the thrilling discussions and wonderful polls. 0 0%
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Old 07-13-2011, 03:20 PM   #16
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I only buy ebooks for novels. I will buy art or craft or some reference pbooks.
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Old 07-13-2011, 03:27 PM   #17
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Only ebooks. I've yet to be so desperate to read a book that I cannot wait for an ebook version to be available.
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Old 07-13-2011, 06:44 PM   #18
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I, too, rarely purchase pbooks but I have enough unread ones lying around that I'm still reading them. In fact, I make it a point to try to read a pbook for every 2 or so ebooks that I read. Too many ebooks and I find myself craving a "real" book. When I'm done with it, I love my reader again!

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Old 07-13-2011, 06:50 PM   #19
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With the current trend of ebooks costing more that pbooks, I'm starting to migrate back to pbooks. It's all about the $$!
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Old 07-13-2011, 07:01 PM   #20
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I haven't bought a PB in a year and a half. Nor have I read any of the ones I have here at home.

I'm all ebook all the time.
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Old 07-13-2011, 07:12 PM   #21
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strangely enough, my kindle is making me miss pbooks, haha. i love both though
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Old 07-13-2011, 07:19 PM   #22
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My actual choice isn't an option.

I buyonly eBooks. If it isn't out in eBook, I will wait.

But then again, I probably already have it is pBook form.
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Old 07-13-2011, 08:04 PM   #23
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I in principle always prefer ebooks over paper, and when purchasing books will purchase the ebook if it is available. However, I am not interested in going to the effort required for option one. Most of the paper books I read are in the purgatory of being in copyright, but not available as ebooks (and many will likely never be). I actually rarely buy these as I can usually get a copy from my local library soon enough. So I guess option two is closest to my actual behavior. Though often enough option five is true.
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Old 07-13-2011, 08:12 PM   #24
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I chose option 3, but I am really a mix between:

I prefer eBooks, but will buy pbooks that don't have an eBook option.

and

I buy a pretty even mix of eBooks and pBooks, based on certain criteria (price, availability, etc.).

99% of my new purchases are e-books, but there are a few series that I have chosen to continue in pbook form. Repurchasing all of them as ebooks would be ridiculously expensive.
I'm similar to Nyssa, though for different reasons (I still want most pictorial books in pbook form, as well as most cookbooks, but there are also some emotional idiosyncrasies that may have me buy the physical item as well as the ebook, and I particularly like 2nd hand pbooks). It would probably be fair though to say I'm in transition from option 3 to 2.

To put it another way, I have an Amazon Wishlist called "pre-ebooks" where I'm not buying them until they're in ebook form, and keep the list to remind me to check occasionally.

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Old 07-14-2011, 08:37 AM   #25
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With the current trend of ebooks costing more that pbooks, I'm starting to migrate back to pbooks. It's all about the $$!
Are you sure of this trend? ebooks I have bought from amazon.co.uk have usually been below the corresponding pbook price.
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Old 07-14-2011, 07:24 PM   #26
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Only ebooks for prose, never come across one I was desperate enough to cut and convert.

Pbooks for reference.
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Old 07-14-2011, 10:51 PM   #27
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I only buy ebooks now.
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Old 07-15-2011, 12:32 AM   #28
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I hate DRM, and I hate the ebook price fixing.

So I'm one of the few people that voted that I buy mostly pbooks. I prefer a hardcover with its durability and resellability for books/authors I really love.

I prefer an ebook over a paperback, but not with DRM, and not for a full price-fixed $8 or $9. I'll pick up the paperback at my local used bookstore for $2, thank you.

Once in a while, if I really want an e-book of something I already have in pbook, I'll download a the ebook in pdf or whatever and convert/proof it myself in calibre/sigil (against the pbook) for my own personal use. I'm not re-buying the same thing I already own. My desire to support the author doesn't go as far as double/triple buying stuff.
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