I'm old school! I'm more comfortable with a book & I find ereading gets tiresome quickly!
Books... been around for centuries, that is my final answer.
@atheist you still need a signal or/and electricity. Besides... have you ever beat up somebody with an ebook? ...now a bible or a phonebook are pretty convenient an useful as a weapon. Ebook will never be a work of art. I had in my hands once a book over 250 years old of Davinci drawings... a family heirloom. Priceless to that woman and worth plenty of money. I admit I would had marry her for that book. Ebooks are just a data tool that could be deleted with a click. Sometimes change is not better.
Ereading. I was reading a tree born book the other day and found myself frustrated when tapping an unfamiliar word on the page didn't bring up a definition. Paper lovers can rave all they want about how there's nothing quite as pleasing to their senses as the smell of old mold. For my part, I'll take a book whose font is easier to adjust to my eyes any day.
I read paper books when I can, often while eating dinner at a restaurant. I especially like to read paper books in public. It is a tiny social engineering mission I have to get people really reading, especially reading non-fiction. I have noticed that people will pay some attention to my reading a paper book and that they ignore it when I read an ebook or listen to an audiobook. The paper book can also be an icebreaker to a question or full conversation. The cover of a paper book is often an "attention getter" that aids the above actions, and it is also an advertisement of your thinking. I get more than a few glances when I am at IHOP with a book like The End Of Faith. This lets them know "There are Atheists among them!" I have often been the first Atheist that somebody has ever met, and often it is due to reading an Atheist book in public.
I read ebooks most often. I like being able to take notes, search, quote, highlight, look up things as I am reading. Plus, the portability and lower price are big pluses! I don't know exactly how many books I "read", but it is in considerable excess of the 809 listed on my FaceBook page (many of my chosen books are not " popular" with FB - I could probably add another 30%). That translates into serious money!
And I listen to audiobooks when I am doing something else, usually. I reserve my audiobooks for fiction, which is almost entirely Sci-Fi, though some of the classics (Mark Twain, Steinbeck, Dickens, and such), and nonfiction which does not require graphics.
Here are done screenshots from my audiobook and ebook lists.
I just like the feel of the paper and like to collect the books I read.
I have id say about a hundred books and I've read them all. there mostly about serial killers, crime, assassins and death camps etc. I love fiction on film but reality in books. I just find the criminal mind and what people happily do to each other intriguing.
Never done an ebook.. I like real authentic books with pages you can turn and hold in your hand.
@atheist yes exactly... nothing will ever replace a book or the true feeling of that.
I love the convenience of e-books. I do not read books as much as I should and this helps to resolve that. I have, unfortunately had to get most of my reading done via web sources. A bit of a sad commentary on my life.
It depends. When reading fiction, definitely turning the real pages is where I like to be but doing research for fun , I prefer computer allowing me to flip with hyperlinks,
With research , it is the content I am after, with a novel it is the inner feel I seek . To be captured within the pages and smell the action in the print.
I've tried the ebooks thing and I just can't get used to it. Nothing feels the same to me as lounging around with a physical book.