Feature and Follow Friday #96 – Book Format

Posted 30 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Feature and Follow, Memes / 24 Comments

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Feature and Follow Friday #96 – Book Format

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Hard print (real thing) or Kindle/Nook, which is your favorite? – Suggested by The Realm of Books.

I have three reasons for almost always getting my books in kindle format. First of all, I live in Europe, and the instant gratification is just too big of a lure for me to resist. I can click, and seconds later the book is there, all ready to be savoured by me. Also, physical books are very expensive here, an it takes a long time before the paperback versions are in bookstores in Geneva. Thirdly, I just don’t have more room for physical books in my house!

What about you? Do you favor physical or e-books?

Thanks for stopping by today, have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend.

Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

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Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.

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24 responses to “Feature and Follow Friday #96 – Book Format

    • Oh how I know the feeling, Nikita 🙂 I do like physical copies, but now that I’m so used to e-books, the physical books are big and heavy in my hands 😀
      Have a fantastic Friday.

  1. All perfectly logical and excellent reasons to love ebooks! Though I find myself a real book lover more! It’s just how my reading habits started and I scoffed at the idea of an ereader. Then I got one and loved how I could get those earcs so easily!! And then there’s the indie authors whose books are sooo much cheaper to buy as ebooks. And also those ebook only kind of reads! Though I found the books I buy are usually cheaper as real, because I have a B&N membership. Though I do think Amazon has finally lowered the price of ebook vs real book. At one time, they were the same price! So I didn’t see the reason to buy an ebook.

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    • If I lived in the US, I think I’d have a huge room that would just be my library 🙂 And if you have room for all your physical books, I can understand why you’d rather have beautiful shelves than an e-reader 🙂
      have a fantastic Friday, Jessica.

  2. I have a Kindle Fire for exactly the same reasons as yours 🙂 When I ordered my books abroad, it took them so long to arrive and I read them too quickly ! And I can carry 800+ in my purse, I feel like a super heroin, so strong lol

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    • I agree with you 100%, Iza. I used to have to wait for ages and ages for my books to wait, and like you, I went through a lot of books each week. When I could finally buy a kindle, I was really happy. And always having hundreds of books in my purse is heavenly.

  3. I think I love paperbacks as much as e-copies nowadays. I only buy books from my favourite authors in paperback as I like having those on ym shelves and soemtiems I find a paperback copy that’s cheaper or almost as cheap as the e-copy. I bought The Bone Season yesterday for 4 euro’s less in paperback then the e-copy. The instant gratification of e-books is nice indeed. And like you mentioend here in europe books are pricey. When I buy paperbacks or hardcopies I always get them from the bookdepository as it’s about 4 euro’s per book cheaper then in stores here and then I hear those in the US complain that the bookdepository is pricey…

    • Yeah, the price is one thing, and the space is another… My kindle doesn’t take much room, and it’s always in my purse so I never run out of things to read 🙂

  4. I like both print and ebooks, but I find I get more ebooks now days because they are cheaper and well, lets face it if I had all the books I have in my reader plus all the prints I already have..I would be up to the ceiling in books. 🙂

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    • Yeah, I would have to creep through book-tunnels if all my books were physical! And I don’t like to part with my books, either 🙁

  5. Lexxie, I know exactly what you mean when you talk about the costs of books or having limited funds, because even though the physical ones are much cheaper here in the US, I don’t always have the money to shell out for them. This is where one of the reasons I love my Kindle comes in to play, plus it also allows me to check into all of those wonderful Indie Author’s that I wouldn’t have known otherwise. 🙂

    I hope you have a fantastic weekend! 🙂

    Happy Reading and Hopping Through! 🙂
    Suz @ A Soul Unsung

    • True, I love many indie authors, and thank goodness it’s not too difficult to find them when we know where to look, Suz.

  6. Whichever is the best deal is one I’d go with. Although there are times where I prefer print copies, I seem to read those faster and it’s easier on my poor old eyes however I can’t beat ebooks. As long as I have my phone with me my digital library goes where I go, I’ll never be bored.

    Happy weekend, Lexxie!

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