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What are your thoughts about eBooks? (kbin.social)

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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 :)

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[–] TheBananaKing 2 points 1 year ago

I do almost all my reading on my phone; have done for years.

It's just so much more convenient in every single respect.

It's always with you, you only need one free hand, it's got a built-in light, your phone is smaller and easier to carry than a book, it doesn't get beaten up or bent, you don't have to carry two books to work when you only have 50 pages of your current book left, I can buy and receive new books in seconds, and I can hoard unreasonable quantities of books without filling up my entire apartment (also makes moving house 10x easier...)

Ebook format would absolutely and comprehensively suck for textbooks - the UI is nowhere near good enough for thumbing through by feel, and no ereader screen has the size or resolution required for studying - but for ordinary fiction, there's just no downside except occasionally running out of battery.