/lit/ - Literature

>>15266882
Ebooks because I'm not a backwards boomer

Printed books because I like to feel the pages in my hand and I can quickly traverse to the pages I want to read. I use an ereader though out of convenience and frugality.

Ebooks because I don't like hoarding physical books.

Physical, I like the sensation. Feelings the pages, smelling it, seeing my progress.
It's also very useful if you're writing about the book as it's much easier to jump back and forth between pages

>>15266948
Yeah fully indexed and hyperlinked epubs with word search, instant bookmarks, text highlight and google bar are so damn inconvenient. I prefer good ol' bookie 'ere cause it smells of rotten wood

Physical. How else would other people know what I’m reading?

>>15266991
Doing a comparative paper is 1000x times easier with physical as long as you're not a brainlet

>>15266882
>>15267008
This. Reading with an ereader beats paper books in every way except having a bookshelves to show off your wisdom and muh book smell

>>15267032
This is why I get my philosophy and math books in printed form. My eBook reader is filled with shitty fantasy books that make me happy.

>>15266882
I like both equally.

>>15266882
Physical, but if I had the money, I'd drop $500+ on a proper ereader with a big enough screen and a fast enough processor to handle scanned PDFs and never look back. I don't think I could completely give up having a library of physical books, though. It's too good of a mnemonic device.

>>15266882
I tried to read ebooks on my cellphone, it wasn't the same. I don't like it, I don't really enjoy reading digital books, a tablet or cellphone can't replace the sensation of a book. I don't have that problem with comics.

>>15266882
Physical for now. I do not like being dependent on digital media incase there is situation where there is no electricity or internet such as the apocalypse I will move to ebooks if my current collection is lost in fire or something.

>>15266882
I hate ebooks.

>>15266882
Physical. It is nice to have a few hobbies left that aren’t looking at a screen.

>>15266882
pdf's becuase I am paranoid and like the fact that no one knows what Im reading unless they open the document and know the password.
Conversely I like to project the text onto my back wall and then blow up the text so i can read it from afar doing various things

Printed because I like looking at them on my shelf honestly

>>15266882

I like physical better, but I've been pirating most of my books on my e-reader for the past couple of years. I like downloading weird old books from Internet Archive.

Physical books because I don't believe we'll have wifi, electricity and the digital option all the time, everywhere and forever.

>>15266882
Just read ebooks and burn your printed books because of YA "bibliophiles"

>>15266882
bof

>>15266882
we get this thread everyday.

>>15266882
printed by far. but i'm poorcas fuck and ebooks are free so i spend 70% of my reading on my phone, which is extremely annoying.

>>15266882
both

>>15266882
Actual books in 3D. Ebooks are stupid and pretentious. I love that my books have pages that I've underlined, scribbled comments, smudges, spilled coffee on, and so on.

>>15269957
>ebooks are pretentious
>I LOVE MY SCRIBBLERINOS MY BORKIN SMUDGERINOS SPILLE COFFERINOS ON MY SMELLY PAGERINOS

Ebooks are not a permanent record. They can be edited remotely by the publisher and/or the government. Which is totally unacceptable for me, so I usually buy physical books.

>>15270097
Simply download from Project Gutenberg

Any recommended epub readers for android that can compete with the Kindle app? The app is so simple to use but I'd like to use more than just mobi files

>>15270097
Yeah, the evil goobermint really cares which esoteric piece of garbage you're reading these days.

>>15266882

I prefer reading on my iPad.
Though I don't judge anyone based on which form do they prefer.
I think this elitism is retarded. To each their own.

>>15270097
There are readers other than the Amazon Swindle.
I've got a few years old Kobo-reader that's never been connected to the internet. They would have required an account but there are workarounds that allow to use it as just a simple reader, not as a store-front/publishing route.
Gutenberg is awesome and even new books you can find pretty quickly online.
>>15270183
Amazon actively removes books from people's devices. Funniest thing is they did it to 1984 once.

>>15266882
Always physical, unless I'm broke then I'll read on my pc. I want to get an ereader eventually for random papers and books I can't get my hands on for a reasonable price, because ereaders beat computer/phone screens.

The thing is my visual memory is impaired when reading e-books because every text looks the fucking same. With physical books every book has its own layout which helps me retain information better, I guess that's how my autistic brain works.

>>15270097
This too, some books I've bought physically in the past few years have been e-purged already, but they can't come and take my actual books away.

>>15266882
E-books because I can easily print them
>>15266889
faggot zoomer

>>15266882
I prefer a physical copy, but I use ebooks for their convenience.

>>15266948
This

ebooks because free, and its easier to take notes.

>>15270212
So don't buy from amazon you utter tardcake? For that matter
>buying files

>>15266882
Physical books: more pleasant experience, remember the content better. Expensive or have to get them from a library (labour)
Ebooks: convenient, free (unless you pay or them), easy to check the definitions of new words (particularly useful for foreign language books).

>>15271115
You hit on part of the problem for me. I can remember/don't get distracted as easily when reading physical books.

>>15270140
PG formatting and quality is smoldering trash that filters plebs. The Standard E-books project (https://standardebooks.org/)) exists solely because of how terrible PG is.

>>15268267
staring at back lit screens are the problem for me. need that e-ink

>>15272092
they are based desu

e-books are more convenient, but i having a physical copy is a nicer experience overall.

>>15270212
>Amazon actively removes books from people's devices.
The last time this happened was around 2014.
>>15270140
>>15272092
Don't fall for public domain copies.

>>15272419
>Don't fall for public domain copies.
the fuck you said bootlicker

>>15266882
ebooks because they're free

>>15266991
I own a decent ebook, but it's still a hassle to flip back and forth to find just what you're looking for the way you can do with a physical book. Would never get a textbook i ebook form

>>15272508
>incomplete editions
>censored
>translated by hacks
>translations of translations
Unless you fell for the leftists mess with translations meme, don't read public domain shit if you can help it.

I like both
been reading on a tablet rather than an ereader though. ereaders seem like aids with the black flash, also bad or no browsers on ereaders means no webnovels unless the author makes a epub or whatever out of it, which in the case of the current one I'm reading they don't

I'm using my ebooks because it is so easy looking up words instantly. When I get better at reading difficult English, I'll start buying more books again

Prefer physical, but my library doesn't stock anything that isn't status quo, government approved, childproof, nonsense. So I use libgen more often than not to avoid paying obscene amounts for a book that may just be 100 pages and shit anyway.

Reading for my own pleasure, physical.

Any sort of work, e-book.

>>15272387
My thoughts more or less, plus there aren't so many digitised books in my language

Digital are convenient for transportation. Depending on the subject. Non-Fiction and still in print, and especially cheap, I go physical.

ebooks, because you can't torrent printed books.