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?
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I love hard print more but I have a balanced shelf. Although I love hardcovers better but still ebooks are more convenient to carry around. I have no room for physical copies in my house but I just cant resist buying more. 😀
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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 😀
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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 🙂
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I love using my Kindle, but really we’re just friends. My true love are hard copies.
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Ha! I love your comparisons, Lisa 🙂
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
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.
Lexxie, you reasons make absolute sense. With my Kindle the novels are right there, ready for me to start enjoying. Yet, for favorite authors’ novels I will pick up a physical copy. There’s just something about opening that novel for the first time.
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If I had more room, I would have favorite authors’ physical books decorating my house, to, Marsha.
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 🙂
I understand your reasons, ebooks do tend to be a lot more cheaper than physical books. It is also easier to carry them all around. 🙂
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So much easier to carry all my books with me at all times 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Jackie.
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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 🙁
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. 🙂
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True, I love many indie authors, and thank goodness it’s not too difficult to find them when we know where to look, Suz.
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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.
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Always having more books at my fingertips is a big plus, too, I totally agree, Braine 🙂
Well I read so many more hardcover/paperback books. The ebooks are growing on me and I’m reading more ebooks. I think there is still a market for both formats.
Oh yes! I would be sad if either format was to disappear, Rachel. Thanks for stopping by.
I don’t know that I have an actual preference – I buy books in both formats, as you know. 😉 And sometimes I buy them in both! *ha* I think I get a lot in digital format for ease of use. But I do love a book.
There…is that non-committal enough for you?? LOL
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haha Brandee, that is definitely non-committal enough for me 😉 *BIG HUGS*