Preferred format of reading

[PCK]

Print, ereader, phones, or tablets?

 

This is just a poll being done out of curiosity.

[3CityApache]

Search function would be easier. There were loads of threads like this in this section in the last few years.

[PCK]

Oh. I rarely come to this section.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

PRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

[Gertrude]

EEEEEREEEEEAAAAADER!!!

*dons helmet and lance and rides at Ser Scott*

[SkynJay]

Print, e-reader AND audio!!!

I honestly don't care, whichever I can find a copy in.

[The Marquis de Leech]

Print. I don't have an e-reader. I can (and do) read old public domain stuff online, but I much prefer a physical copy when at all possible.

[LongRider]

Kill some trees and put a damn book in my hands.   Then all is well with the world.   

[polishgenius]

I prefer paper but mostly stick to ebook these days for practical reasons.

[Hello World]

Ebooks on my 5 inch Android phone. Print books are too much of a hassle to read nowadays.

[Michael Seswatha Jordan]

Ebooks, but if I enjoy the book I will by a Hardback copy for the bookshelve.

[Calibandar]

I prefer print. I like holding the book, smelling it, the physical object.

And it just feels like it's easier to read than from a screen, though that may just be bias from my side.

[Consigliere]

Used to be print but I slowly came around to ebooks. Nowadays, all my reading is done on an E-reader or phone.

[HexMachina]

Prefer print books but readers are far more practical for reading on the go and for people who live in homes with limited space, or who move around a lot. I can't imagine lugging around all the books I have on my ereader with me every time I move

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

16 hours ago, SkynJay said:

Print, e-reader AND audio!!!

I honestly don't care, whichever I can find a copy in.

Actually, particularly with spec-fic.  Once I've read the book in print I like re-reading on audiobooks.

[Larry of the Lawn]

Did someone say cuneiform yet?  That's usually a page 1 joke.

[Argonath Diver]

I prefer to have my books read to me by a chorus of nubile sex-starved sycophants.

As that option is currently unavailable, and I spend two or more hours a day commuting on a subway, I do 95% of my reading on my phone. Reading a hardback from the library is a rare and happy option.

[Contrarius+]

Audio! Second, ebook -- usually on my laptop, only occasionally on my Kindle.

[Gertrude]

I might have been a little hasty when I said e-reader. There is something very satisfying about holding a physical book and all that goes with it. However, when I factor in all the benefits of electronic, it wins hands-down, If there was an e-reader that figured out how to put e-ink on paper, I'd be all over that. Since there is not, all in all, e-readers are how I roll. I don't like to read on tablets or phones, def prefer e-ink, with a dim backlight, thank you.

If I were one of those people who bought hardcovers and prized the actual physical book, no matter what it is, I might feel different, but most of my reading was done via mass-market paperbacks that I beat all to hell and lost and loaned out, etc. I do have books I prize and they get a place on the bookshelf, but most of my reading material is disposable to me. Not that I get rid of it when I'm done, just that the medium through which the story is delivered is not important to me.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

23 minutes ago, Gertrude said:

I might have been a little hasty when I said e-reader. There is something very satisfying about holding a physical book and all that goes with it. However, when I factor in all the benefits of electronic, it wins hands-down, If there was an e-reader that figured out how to put e-ink on paper, I'd be all over that. Since there is not, all in all, e-readers are how I roll. I don't like to read on tablets or phones, def prefer e-ink, with a dim backlight, thank you.

If I were one of those people who bought hardcovers and prized the actual physical book, no matter what it is, I might feel different, but most of my reading was done via mass-market paperbacks that I beat all to hell and lost and loaned out, etc. I do have books I prize and they get a place on the bookshelf, but most of my reading material is disposable to me. Not that I get rid of it when I'm done, just that the medium through which the story is delivered is not important to me.

I tend to buy hardbacks and trade paperbacks.  I haven't bought a mass market paperback in some time.  Ultimately, I think mass market paperbacks will be supplanted by eReaders in the near term.