95% of book reading occurs on an ebook. I use a kindle and download books from my local Library. A Kindle, Libby, and a Library card is the best investment I have ever made. My reading increased by 200%! (okay that number is made up ... but I read a lot more now).
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I need to get my library card as I believe my local library supports Libby too. How long can you have the digital book “checked out”?
@brcl I believe it is 3 weeks and you can renew as much as you want as long as there is no one waiting for the book. But other Libraries may have different rules.
Honestly I prefer ebooks way more to physical books these days. Almost all of my books are ebooks unless it’s a cookbook or a non-fiction book I need to reference. I have hundreds of books so storage of physical books would have been impossible at those counts.
Ebooks are awesome for reading on the go, and I can take my whole library with me anywhere. I got a really nice cover for my kindle that gives it a bit of weight and it feels great to me.
Also you can use sites like eReaderIQ to setup notifications for ebook sales which has been super nice! I got all my books on sales which has also been nice for the wallet.
I absolutely love them.
Reading in bed is great because the backlight lets me turn off the rest of the room lights so my partner can sleep and my brain can settle into getting ready to sleep since it's overall darker.
Reading more challenging books is great when I can long press a word and get the definition or Wikipedia article about it.
The textile feed of paper books is nice, and larger format books don't translate to ebooks very well, but for the vast majority of my reading it's happening on my Kobo.
While I do enjoy reading a physical book with real pages I can turn. I do prefer the convenience eBooks provide. I use both Kindle and Google Play Books, and its great cause I can just read on my phone whenever I have some time to spare, instead of always having to plan ahead and bring a book with me. And it's also had the added benefit of easier discovery of new reads and authors that I might not have come across otherwise. And I do have a Surface Duo, so I also enjoy how it does emulate that book-like feel when I open it up to read something.
Nothing beats the feel and smell of reading a physical book, but ebooks do have their place. If I'm traveling somewhere and I don't want to carry extra things or worry about damaging my book, I can just read the epub version on my phone. Convenience is a huge plus, but it does feel less engaging and a book will never need you to recharge it.
Gardening, cooking, and some other big favorites are what I keep a physical copy for. The rest are all digital.