No longer buying printed novels

[Cosimo]

I, too, have happily gone all digital.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by voracious71

I read too much dystopian fiction to want to get rid of paper books completely.

Which book have you committed to memory?

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Which book have you committed to memory?

Just this fragment from the past-Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

Just this fragment from the past-Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.

Eat well my son

...sic transit mundus

[Wolfies]

I have stopped buying printed books because I just don't have the space. I am now on the move most of the time, and think it silly to buy books and then wack them in storage. I am actually in the process of getting rid of books, read and unread, which can be quite painful. So most of the printed books I read are borrowed from friends or from the book exchange places. It still fells weird to finish a big novel and then give the physical thing away the very same day. But its better not to hang on to these things I think

[Tarana]

I bought some paperbacks just a couple of months ago to have them OCR'd so that I could read them. The last of my novels were donated to a senior revolving library and a veterans hospital. In my case I have vision issues.

[FatDog]

I was in Seattle recently and near a Mystery and a large used book store. It was agony to NOT go in and indulge.

My daughter got disgusted that we had a storage unit with lots of old stuff including about 8 full box's of paperbacks & other books so she made it her mission to empty things out and save us the $120/month.

(I would literally re-purchase a favorite paperback at the bookstore because it was easier than trying to dig through the box's.)

Made me realize we had a problem.

Most of the books went to a local charity bookstore which claims to use the money to teach English to non-english speaking people.

I have been haunting the Amazon Kindle deal of the day looking for sales/deals to re-build.

My one exception: I sometimes go to the local BarnsNNoble to browse magazines and books as for some reason - this is a nicer discovery for me than browsing websites. I make it a point to always buy 1-2 books and magazines to support the brick-n-mortar business.

[pdurrant]

I really only buy ebooks these days. I might buy one or two paper books per year, but I buy around 200 ebooks a year. (Although I am trying to cut down, honest!)

[Ripplinger]

There comes a point when you realize you have just too much clutter (I'd have gotten chastised by a moderator if I said what I really wanted to in place of "clutter" ). So you give stuff away, toss stuff away, and stop buying more to add to the mess.

That includes not buying any printed books for me for the last 4 years or so except for one autographed book by my favorite author that will be stashed away and never read (I also have a digital copy), but that will likely be the last printed book I ever buy. I've never felt any "tactile" need to want to turn paper pages or smell the books or anything else along those lines. Even if I did, the convenience of ereaders and ebooks so far outweighs any of the nostalgia some associate with printed books that I'd still never go back to them.

[ebusinesstutor]

I still buy business books in print format. But almost all of my fiction reading is ereading. Occasionally I pick up a garage sale fiction book that looks interesting but that is rarer now.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor

I still buy business books in print format. But almost all of my fiction reading is ereading. Occasionally I pick up a garage sale fiction book that looks interesting but that is rarer now.

I'd have to guess that it's getting rarer to find pbooks for sale at garage sales too. I mean if everyone is getting rid of pbooks and going digital where will the market for garage sale books go?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by crich70

I mean if everyone is getting rid of pbooks and going digital where will the market for garage sale books go?

thumb drives loaded with epub/mobi files

[JohnRR]

I also don't buy printed novels now. Ebooks save my space and I don't have to worry I will run out of space any more. The price of most books in e-format are much lower too. Even Amazon add US$2.00 to many books that it wants to sell me, the price is lower than what I need to pay at other sites or real bookshops. Therefore, I will continue to buy ebooks.

[missimpossible]

I still buy a lot of both. My main constraints are space and money at the moment (I suppose they're EVERYONE'S main constraints, really!). I buy a lot of secondhand paper books, because they're often so cheap. With ebooks, I tend to buy them on offer - I buy a lot of the YA that I read as ebooks as overall the ebook tends to be cheaper than paper. I still have a hard time choosing ebook over paper when they are both similarly priced, or when the paper book is significantly cheaper, but I'm coming round to the idea more, at least where they're similar, as I have massive space constraints, and the longer I read on a reader the more I like the experience.

I do still appreciate books as physical objects though, and there are some series that I'll always collect in paper (Discworld). If I really love an ebook I do tend to buy a paper copy as well at some point... I'm beginning to think I have problems!

[danskmacabre]

I buy pbooks occasionally (maybe a few a year) at 2nd hand stores, but that's about it.