Ebook or paper book?

[ParadiseLost19]

I prefer hard copies of most things. It puts less strain on my eyes that way. I already need glasses, no need to make it worse.

[Rose Mchallen]

I prefer paperback/hardcover over ebooks. There's something about holding a book in your hands.

[QueenB]

I like both a good real book and an ebook. Lately, I have preferred reading an ebook since I can take several books with me as I go.

[ashley2100]

I like paper books mostly for aesthetic reasons, while having an ebook allows me to finish books faster and I don't procrastinate as much for some reason.

[warmharvest]

I recently received a kindle as a present and was so excited to use it-but after using it a couple of times I much prefer the real thing. Is this something you get over the more you use them? I love the idea of them but find them uncomfortable to use.

[roopa80]

Besides the smell, touch factor- for me, a paper book works cos I don't know I just feel more connected to the book, able to recollect it better..It sort of remains in my 'system' for a longer time when I read paperbacks. It is so odd, isn't it?

[rozel278]

I used to be firmly against the idea of Ebooks, essentially on the basis that they were soulless. Living and working in a city and staring at a screen all day makes the idea of going home and staring at a screen all night depressing. The unwelcome truth is however that Ebooks are convenient, they're light and easy to store, and although boxes of books are homely, full of memories and incomparable décor for any lover of reading's home, they break your back. A future where a thousand well thumbed, musty old favourites are replaced by the cold, hard lines of one Ebook is Utopian, but there's no use ignoring the benefits of such easy access to knowledge.

[kengeeb]

I definitely prefer paper books. I'd use an ebook if that was all I had for the moment; but only temporarily...

[apaige6810]

I am an avid reader, have been since See. Sam. Run. When ereaders first came out, I said to myslef, "I will never own one of those!" I am a hardback girl all the way. I love the way an actual book smells, feels, and sits on a shelf.

About a year ago, however, my husband bought me a nook. I purchased my first book on it, (at a discounted price than the bookstore would have sold me a hardback copy) and started reading. I fell in love. Not only does an ereader (I have a nook) make reading convenient when you are on the go, but it also opens you up to a whole new world of possibility. There are so many unpublished authors who are writing and posting free downloads for their books on the nook site - and they are great, great stories! Had I not been given a nook, I never would have known that these things existed.

Most evenings you can find me with my nook in one hand, and a glass of wine in the other, escaping to some wonderful world via an ebook. Oh, and I use a paper type ereader so it doesn't feel like you are looking at a computer screen at all. Hardly feels different from an actual book except you tap a button instead of turning a page.

[Nusrat_Sultana]

Paper book! It will always be actual book over ebook for me. I love having the physical copy in my hands.

[Mel003]

I can't decide which way to go, I love to read but turning pages and torn covers are all part of that experience. As I teacher I am in two minds about it. I enjoy sharing with my students all the educational benefits that go with iPads and love to see how the level of engagement increases but I still can't dismiss the enjoyment I get from turning the pages of a real book. Maybe I will try both and see whether I can move with the times!

[Alamin khan]

paper book is good but ebook is the best in my sense . cause just think it how many paper book you can collect ?

[ParadiseLost19]

I prefer holding something in my hand as I read. That way, there is a certain comfort to it, and a certain anticipation when you get close to the end.

[Crickets]

I prefer an e-reader much much more! I own a kindle and a pretty large library of traditional books and I much prefer the kindle. I can read much faster on it because I set it for less words on a page and it's really good for finding that new book out that you desperately want to read. The only thing that draws me to traditional books is the smell. That's it. And I can live without that.

[Premature]

I actually read on an iPad for a couple of months (pre-retina display!) and got along with it just fine, with periodical brightness adjustments. It was very convenient for me since I would have carried it with me anyway and didn't have to lug hard-copies around as well. I cracked its screen however and so I went ahead and got the Kindle Paper-white. I've been reading on it for two months now and it is really a pleasant experience. The back-light is fantastic.
I really does lose something though when your shelves don't get any fuller and there isn't a physical object in your home reminding you of a journey that you have been on. It's like going on vacation and not taking any pictures. You still get the memories, but they fade a little easier.