[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

me: audiobook.
Wife: E-reader.

Audiobooks. The quality varies and has peaked with Stephen Fry's Harry Potter reading, but being able to read a book while working is great. Paper books are just a waste of space and resources.

Paper

Paper for sure. For a novel, I just find an E-reader too impersonal. A paper book is much more cosy.

Also, if the book's ending sucks, I can throw it across the room. I did that when I read Crichton's Sphere.

I also can't do audiobooks. My attention just drifts too much and I miss important things. I do listen to radio dramatizations though. The BBC does lots of them and many are on the Internet Archive.

I'm a book sniffer. Give me your yellowed pages, your dimpled and pawed over covers, your cracked spines, your taped up paperbacks, your pages coming undone, I'll hold it all together, I don't care. I actually like it

I spend a lot of time driving, audiobooks are the way to go

All of them, but if I had an order.

E-Books for series I like and for day to day reading

Audiobooks for series which I want read to me

And Physical Book for series I adore and want the complete physical set.

I can't read book on my phone or tablet so I need paper books but I like audio books when I can't read and just want to listen

Since the word "read" doesn't actually mean anything these days, I just read the movies on Netflix.

My tech dream. Imagine a blank book. Pages look, smell, and feel like paper. Insert a disc into the cover, and text appears on the pages. You can change the text as many times as you want.

Niche item, I know, but I can dream.

My preference is Hardback > Paperback > Ebook as a last resort.

Ebooks. I like to listen to music while reading and Morgan Freeman doesn't narrate enough of my preferred texts.

Whichever one lets you read the most, which for me can change

I usually read an epub file on my phone while listening to the audiobook at the same time.

Ever since moving abroad, it's been e-readers for me. Couldn't haul my book collection around, and didn't feel like buying it all again.

Ereaders, because I can get classic works for free from public archives.

Paper, outdoors.

Osmosis

E-books and e-readers all the way! All my teenage years I was reading on a e-reader.

I broke mine couple of months ago and I will probably buy an replacement with my next paycheck.

I read ebooks because they're more portable, I can read them on my phone instead of doing the old social media counterpoint all day. I have signed up for several digital library cards with fake addresses so I can access more books, lol, and I also buy ebooks with survey money, so all the free books! I read about 10 books a week.

Audio books let me capitalize on the strengths of my ADHD.

Paper, but I love the convenience of e-books on my phone; I'm never without a book.

Edit: And since my phone is waterproof, I can read in the bath, or while washing dishes!

Audiobooks allow me to stoll through the park while drinking coffee and listening to the story. Or for fantastic visualization, driving across the country with an audiobook offers little visual distraction. Basically they let me do mundane but necessary things while "reading".

I prefer paper books but listen to more audiobooks because commute time is down time already.

I prefer paper but I’m happy to have my kobo while traveling!

i like all three. do i have to pick?

ebooks first. i'll text-to-speech it most of the times but the text being there helps so i can attach my annotations. if the book is brilliant, i'll buy a physical copy and install it in my growing library. this year though, i got a little risky and bought my first quarter of the year TBR all paper books. EXPENSIVE!

I apologize if I haven't seen it in another comment, but there is a category missing (sort of, let me quickly explain).

I like reading books from my phone with a dark theme (inverted colors). It's not exactly an e-reader, though it is electronic.

I don't claim it's the best way, it's just very convenient because of (former Reddit)/(now Lemmy) addiction to using my phone to read about cool stuff.

It's particularly handy before sleeping or when commuting

Edit: added last sentence