[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

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I spend a lot of time driving, audiobooks are the way to go

me: audiobook.
Wife: E-reader.

All of them, but if I had an order.

E-Books for series I like and for day to day reading

Audiobooks for series which I want read to me

And Physical Book for series I adore and want the complete physical set.

Audiobooks. The quality varies and has peaked with Stephen Fry's Harry Potter reading, but being able to read a book while working is great. Paper books are just a waste of space and resources.

I'm a book sniffer. Give me your yellowed pages, your dimpled and pawed over covers, your cracked spines, your taped up paperbacks, your pages coming undone, I'll hold it all together, I don't care. I actually like it

Paper for sure. For a novel, I just find an E-reader too impersonal. A paper book is much more cosy.

Also, if the book's ending sucks, I can throw it across the room. I did that when I read Crichton's Sphere.

I also can't do audiobooks. My attention just drifts too much and I miss important things. I do listen to radio dramatizations though. The BBC does lots of them and many are on the Internet Archive.

My tech dream. Imagine a blank book. Pages look, smell, and feel like paper. Insert a disc into the cover, and text appears on the pages. You can change the text as many times as you want.

Niche item, I know, but I can dream.

Ebooks. I like to listen to music while reading and Morgan Freeman doesn't narrate enough of my preferred texts.

I can't read book on my phone or tablet so I need paper books but I like audio books when I can't read and just want to listen

Ereaders, because I can get classic works for free from public archives.

Whichever one lets you read the most, which for me can change

Since the word "read" doesn't actually mean anything these days, I just read the movies on Netflix.

Ever since moving abroad, it's been e-readers for me. Couldn't haul my book collection around, and didn't feel like buying it all again.

My preference is Hardback > Paperback > Ebook as a last resort.

I usually read an epub file on my phone while listening to the audiobook at the same time.

Paper, but I love the convenience of e-books on my phone; I'm never without a book.

Edit: And since my phone is waterproof, I can read in the bath, or while washing dishes!

I apologize if I haven't seen it in another comment, but there is a category missing (sort of, let me quickly explain).

I like reading books from my phone with a dark theme (inverted colors). It's not exactly an e-reader, though it is electronic.

I don't claim it's the best way, it's just very convenient because of (former Reddit)/(now Lemmy) addiction to using my phone to read about cool stuff.

It's particularly handy before sleeping or when commuting

Edit: added last sentence

i like all three. do i have to pick?

I prefer paper books but listen to more audiobooks because commute time is down time already.

Audiobooks are my go to. I work with my hands all day and having an audiobook is great for non-stop listening.

When I get super into a series I'll end up reading ahead on my phone from royal road or patreon.

If I have the time, I'll do an e-reader or a book. They're about even.

I read ebooks because they're more portable, I can read them on my phone instead of doing the old social media counterpoint all day. I have signed up for several digital library cards with fake addresses so I can access more books, lol, and I also buy ebooks with survey money, so all the free books! I read about 10 books a week.

Audio books let me capitalize on the strengths of my ADHD.

Audiobooks allow me to stoll through the park while drinking coffee and listening to the story. Or for fantastic visualization, driving across the country with an audiobook offers little visual distraction. Basically they let me do mundane but necessary things while "reading".

I prefer paper but I’m happy to have my kobo while traveling!

E-books and e-readers all the way! All my teenage years I was reading on a e-reader.

I broke mine couple of months ago and I will probably buy an replacement with my next paycheck.

I want the physical book for the shelf but I read the ebook on my smartphone. Way more convenient for me.