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Related question: are Kindle Unlimited books digital only? Can you not buy physical copies of it?
Ngl I still buy physical books, and I use my ereader to check out ebooks from the library and/or sail the high seas, so I have no idea what's going on in the ebook ecosystems.
Sort of? Kindle Unlimited itself is digital only, but the exclusivity clause only applies to ebooks I think, so in theory you could purchase a physical copy elsewhere.
I've pretty much entirely abandoned physical books. It's just far more convenient using an e-reader which has a backlight for reading in the dark, fits thousands of books in a device that's pocket sized, and let's me instantly purchase, download, and start reading the next book in a series as soon as I finish the last one.
I do have physical books still, but I haven't bought new ones in about a decade now.
I see, thanks for the explanation!