I love the feel and the smell of a print book, so I prefer that. But then again, they're cutting down trees for that (here's hoping that it's true that they use recycled paper for most of the books).

The e-reader is very practical, and very useful, also, if you want to save yourself some money Leave the money for the print books that are really great.

print books for sure .. ebooks don't have that feel of paperbacks ..

Ebooks are a lot more convenient... it fits perfect in my purse and i don't have a stack of books laying around and the fact that i can adust the font format is awesome!! not to mention the cost is a lot lower for and Ebook vs a hard cover book! Mind you I have to admit thinking about it.... I do miss the excitement of picking up a new book and holding in my hands and thinking yes finally got my copy and opening it for the first time and the smell of a new book too!! but as lthe world changes so does everyone along with it so for me it's the Ebook =)

i can't really say i prefer one over the other. i absolutely LOVE my kindle. i have thousands of books on it and add more every week. but i also loving going through box after box at the local used book store to find that ONE gem buried on the bottom to add to my collection. i haven't slowed down buying print books since i got my kindle, it's still a regular thing for me to hit up the used book store or the "for sale" rack at the library. there are print books i can't find as an e-book, but there are also e-books that aren't printed. 6 of one...half a dozen of another, yanno?

Yes I prefer eBooks BUT if I were to get lazy then I prefer a hardcovered book. I never understood the purpose of paperback.

I usually find paper books to be cheaper

Well yes, they are but it's just weird? Haven't we cut down enough trees? "responsible forestry practices" are just more ink the printer puts on the paper to satisfy the tree huggers.

This statement is ridiculous in so many ways. What's the difference between "hardcovers" and "paperbacks"? OH right, the "hardcover" version uses compacted cardboard/leather/heavy paper. Other than that they're identical. They still use paper. Trees are still being cut down regardless of book type.

[traceliner]

trees get cut down,, trees fall down, just this week thousands of trees burned down all around me ( as well as hundreds of houses). Just think , if Wm R. Hurst hadn't influenced Congress to ban the use of hemp as the primary source to make paper ( Hurst owned thousands of acres of forest and as a result, lumber mills to make the paper for his newspapers)
The cool thing about trees , is that they can grow new ones, books and other paper items aren't destroying the forests, the building of houses, strip malls, parking lots, etc... are the culprits. Anyway.. I love my real books. but like everyone else, having the ability to read while waiting for an appointment, while traveling, or just hanging out, the ebooks just make it so much easier. I wish they had the ebooks out when I was in school. I swear my back issues are from hauling all those textbooks around in my backpack back and forth across campus.

One of the many reasons I personally prefer ebooks is that they are available in diff formats and fonts and are easier on the eyes. Ive noticed I cant read a paper book anymore without getting a headache :/

E-Books are very good but i prefer to use Print Books .............
Print Books are better than E-Books ,...





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Ten Things That You Can't Do With a Book That You Can With a Gadget

1- Make a phone call
2- Use it as an alarm clock
3- Take your whole library with you on your travels
4- you don't have to hold it with your hands while reading (I personally use it laying on my chest thanks to the stands of my cover, and touch it only to turn the pages) no matter what size it is.
5-you can take notes, copy parts of the books if you are a quotations guy
6-you have a vocabulary at hand (if you read books in a foreign language and bump into any unheard words)
7-you can listen to the radio if you are that kind of reader who doesn't get distracted by sounds or noises (i'm not)
8-u don't take up any room in your house with lots of paper that stand there to just get covered with dust
9-u feel better by not helping deforestation
10-last but not least (there are other pros actually, but they don't come to mind now): when you are reading a long book with a lot of characters and at a certain point you wonder: who the hell is this? (like in Martin's books) you can check where he shows up for the first time and throughout the whole book by using the "search function"

I'm sure that you boys and girls have some other more fun and productive ways of using a gadget. Please complete the list and try to make it more than ten without repeating.

Thanks

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I'm referring to the kindle not to any other gadget.

I don't care about the smell of the paper, nor I care about the object " book". I only care about the story contained in it, and with an e-reader the reading is way more confortable, just like jpg photos are confortable than polaroids. So definitely e-books.

I prefer print too

[RavenT]

For me, at this point, I have no more room in my house for more books (not that this stops me from buying more). I commute by bus four days a week (12 hours total), too. So my Kindle and my Nook are very life enhancing.

That said, nothing is better than print copies of graphic rich books, and the smell of an old book (as long as it isn't cigarette smoke) is so evocative.

*edited to fix typo*

Personally I like the ebooks. I was originally against it, thinking it was hard to read electronic format, but after test driving e-ink I loved it! I read my first e-book, and was dreading going back to read the last of my unread print books.

I can share my ebooks, more than one person can read the same book at a time at each own's pace! Plus I can take all the books I need to with me when I travel, much like RavenT. I agree that graphic novels etc aren't the greatest, but I don't read those

Also, laziness falls into play here too. With print books they are heavier and I like to read lying down, and sometimes fall asleep reading (and lose the page I'm on). I don't need to be a specific angle depending on which page I'm reading.

I think I like both, both have there own benefits.
Ebooks have as many of ya'll have pointed out the ability to carry many books. and is easy to carry.
But what I like from real book is the smell of it and just the feeling of flipping through a real book. Plus it doesn't hurt my eyes as much.

Although as our technology is rapidly pacing kids in the future might not pick up a real book so its good to stay with the technology and adapt to it because sticking to the past stubbornly will do no one any good.

[7_7_7]

This conversation reminded me of a blog post I recently read. And, although I'm not sick of this type of question (print books versus ebooks), I caught myself agreeing with much of what was written there (BookRiot, my bolds):

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I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this conversation. And it’s not because I don’t love books. I do. I love paper books; I love ebooks; and I love the wreath made of book pages that hangs on my living room wall. They are not mutually exclusive.

So come on. We’re better than this. When you eat a popsicle, you don’t care what happens to the stick afterward. You might even pat yourself on the back for your eco-minded creativity when you recycle it into a craft, or hand it off to your kids to do the same. It’s not about the popsicle stick, and you know it. The popsicle is the thing you want; the stick is just the delivery device. Stop me if you know where I’m going here.

It’s the same with books. We love books for what they carry within them, not for what they’re made of. The story is the thing; the physical book or ereader or tablet or phone is merely the delivery device. When you fetishize the physical properties of an object, you devalue its contents. When you freak out over the ‘destruction’ of books, you are not elevating books. You are reducing the intangible magic of stories to the ink, pulp, and glue that deliver them to you.

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As I said, I do agree with most of that post... when regarding fiction. I love my fiction in eformat. My research/work books? Not so much. I prefer them in paper... although I love being able to carry +1500 research ebooks in my laptop. Articles? Give me pdfs all the way.

I love browsing away in search of books to read (some I pay for, some I don't... some I pay after reading because they are SO worth it). However, nothing compares to my joy when entering a physical bookshop or a library... even when I get out empty handed (which seems to happen more and more often, specially regarding novels).

"They are not mutually exclusive". Indeed.

[fullybook]

I like both. When I read at night, I read an ebook. When I read during daytime, I prefer a book. I usually carry a book with me wherever I go. I use my phone as an ebook reader so I also bring a mini-ebook library with me.