What are your thoughts about eBooks?
I recently bought a PocketBook to motivate myself to read more. So far, it helped alot. I startet to carry it where ever i go. The thing is, its obviously not a real book. You dont have the same experience you get if you would read a real physical book, which is a bigger problem than i thought at first.
So tell me about your thoughts about eBooks :)
Nothing beats the feel and smell of reading a physical book, but ebooks do have their place. If I’m traveling somewhere and I don’t want to carry extra things or worry about damaging my book, I can just read the epub version on my phone. Convenience is a huge plus, but it does feel less engaging and a book will never need you to recharge it.
Gardening, cooking, and some other big favorites are what I keep a physical copy for. The rest are all digital.
95% of book reading occurs on an ebook. I use a kindle and download books from my local Library. A Kindle, Libby, and a Library card is the best investment I have ever made. My reading increased by 200%! (okay that number is made up … but I read a lot more now).
I need to get my library card as I believe my local library supports Libby too. How long can you have the digital book “checked out”?
@brcl I believe it is 3 weeks and you can renew as much as you want as long as there is no one waiting for the book. But other Libraries may have different rules.
While I do enjoy reading a physical book with real pages I can turn. I do prefer the convenience eBooks provide. I use both Kindle and Google Play Books, and its great cause I can just read on my phone whenever I have some time to spare, instead of always having to plan ahead and bring a book with me. And it’s also had the added benefit of easier discovery of new reads and authors that I might not have come across otherwise. And I do have a Surface Duo, so I also enjoy how it does emulate that book-like feel when I open it up to read something.
I like them! I didn’t think I would but I like being able to highlight sections and save them to read again later. Also just being able to carry like 500 books around with me if I go traveling or something, that way I’m not stuck with whichever one I chose before I left.
They are wildly overpriced though IMO. There’s no print costs and the file sizes are tiny so the servers can’t cost that much, there’s no way they should be the same price as a print book.
