Digital or Physical Book?

Kailash

i still read paperbacks when i want to read a novel, but i rarely get to do that these days.
i've given away a lot of my books as they were just taking up space and it was very unlikely i was going to read them again.
i still buy the odd magazine and print out some articles or revision material if im studying.
i dont have a kindle or the like and have put of buying one. i do read a lot on the laptop at home, so in all a bit mixed for me.
as for the child trying to swipe a paper book, seems like an urban legend

Rog69

Kindle all the way for me. I am a voracious reader and a frequent traveller so the convenience of the Kindle is a big plus.

The only thing I don't like is that it has robbed me of the pleasure of rooting through second hand book shops, but I just can't be bothered with carting paperbacks around and storing them.

cerebros

I prefer to get ebooks these days but still have a pile of dead trees to read that I kept after my dad died and I still occasionally slip and buy paper books (got the complete Long Earth series by Baxter & Pratchett for £12 from the Works the other week), plus I've got loads of books I've bought over the years that I want to read again (although if I could get the ebooks versions of them for about a quid each I'd probably quite happily send the paper ones off to the charity shop to save space)

The only books I'd buy in physical form through choice (apart from kids books) are photography books

DPinBucks

Yes, I think Amazon is missing a trick here.  I'd like to see them offer the Kindle version of any physical book bought from them in the past for a nominal price of say £1.  I can't see how they could lose much by that, even if the author & publisher get a small cut.

Two more things I wish they'd do:
Let you bulk buy from a shopping cart instead of having to one-click on every item;Offer a complete series as a single "box-set" at a discount off the individual books

nheather

Noticed that Amazon was offering me a 3 month free trial for Audible.   Thought that was odd as I had already had a 3 month trial less than a year ago. Checked that maybe I wasn’t logged in so it didn’t know my history but I was tried.  Tried it expecting to be rejected when I hit Audible but I wasn’t.

Obviously, they are trying very hard to build the customer numbers up.

Cheers,

imightbewrong

It's the same for many services - Amazon prime, Netflix etc - after a while your 'free trial used' status resets.

nheather

Understand that but after less than than a year, especially as the trial is 3 months surprised me.

Cheers,

Nigel

imightbewrong

I've never timed it, but we've had multiple free trials of many services. Generally about a year apart from memory.  I guess they worked as we eventually gave in and subscribed

alan280170

Ibooks for 99% of books now, it's a love hate relationship, love the convenience hate the coldness. Cannot beat the feel of a book.

Once upon a time I had grand ideas of having a library at home. Over the space of 20 years I kept every book ( I was a voracious reader from age 11-late 20's, 4 books or more a week was not uncommon) I read and my friends would give me their books.

When I transferred to the US in 2004 I realized that the library was a dream, I had at least a thousand books but no where to keep them. I went through them checking for rare ones and the rest went to friends/charity/car boot sale, a sad day indeed.

When In Rome

A house library... cool... here's ours... we, er, put it next to the billiard room...