(And the understanding that my Views are based around what works for me, and I totally get it if you Book differently.)
I absolutely love and adore ebooks. Without ebooks, I would be out of shelf space. And house space. And just space, really. I used to really struggle with packing for long plane or train journeys, because of the number of books I can get through in a few hours. Now, it's practically impossible to run out of books. I can get several days' reading before I need to charge my eReader (usually more than a week), so even a ten hour plane journey is completely fine. I will not run out of reading material.
I like the physical books in theory more than practice. I miss the end papers of books, and getting them signed and so on, but I find it hard to hold a hardback these days (I trashed my wrists a while ago, and I have to live with my poor abused tendons and ligaments). I now tend to find it hard to remember to sort out a bookmark on those rare occasions where I've got a physical book. I do miss flicking backwards in books to remind myself of something. That's something ebooks can't quite replicate.
I like audiobooks, but only in certain specific situations, like where I can't read a book because I'd get travelsick (oh hi pendolino trains, I'm looking at you), or at night, to get me to sleep. And when walking around, though I tend to prefer audio dramas for that, because there's a bit more vocal variety.
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Date: 2021-01-23 07:34 pm (UTC)(And the understanding that my Views are based around what works for me, and I totally get it if you Book differently.)
I absolutely love and adore ebooks. Without ebooks, I would be out of shelf space. And house space. And just space, really. I used to really struggle with packing for long plane or train journeys, because of the number of books I can get through in a few hours. Now, it's practically impossible to run out of books. I can get several days' reading before I need to charge my eReader (usually more than a week), so even a ten hour plane journey is completely fine. I will not run out of reading material.
I like the physical books in theory more than practice. I miss the end papers of books, and getting them signed and so on, but I find it hard to hold a hardback these days (I trashed my wrists a while ago, and I have to live with my poor abused tendons and ligaments). I now tend to find it hard to remember to sort out a bookmark on those rare occasions where I've got a physical book. I do miss flicking backwards in books to remind myself of something. That's something ebooks can't quite replicate.
I like audiobooks, but only in certain specific situations, like where I can't read a book because I'd get travelsick (oh hi pendolino trains, I'm looking at you), or at night, to get me to sleep. And when walking around, though I tend to prefer audio dramas for that, because there's a bit more vocal variety.