Physical vs Digital Books

I strongly prefer physical book over digital ones. With an ebook-reader it's fine for novels but technical text books can't be replaced (yet).

Because reading a physical book is so much better than having to read it digitally. I find digital books convenient but the reading experience is bad even in the best of situations. Books with graphics get badly formatted by eReaders. Flipping thru pages is not possible. It's easier to remember what you read when it's physical. No special device is needed to read them. Also, no power needed. And on, on... I hope physical books never go away.

I hate to be this guy, but isn't this why printers and physical books exist?

The difference between physical books and digital books is apparently wearhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452031

A thousand ebooks can fit onto a giveaway USB drive, or sync with iCloud iBooks and Dropbox and whatever else you find convenient to use. You get used to reading on a screen, and Kindle Paperwhites are also nice to read on. It won't be exactly like paper, but I find that the convenience (searchability is a big one for me) trumps the feel of a "real" book. I also don't mind it much for fiction. Having stuff to read on my phone which is always with me is pretty tough to beat. I

I think it's not only you.I have the same problem with e-readers and books, I miss the ease of moving backward and forward in a paper book.Also, I have observed that I remember better what I read in physical books. Maybe it's because the content is associated to something real out there in the world with a cover, a weight, and a position of the content in the book and a position of the book in my bookshelves.It's kind of weird because the first intuition is that the suppo

Another teenage perspective.Readability: Read real round figures, not aliased fonts.Convenience: Ebooks win, hands down. But going to a good bookstore is a nice experience.Annotation: Nothing beats proper writing for notes (quick diagrams, drawings, underlining, switching position etc.) A pencil does just fine.Cost: More than ebooks, which aren't all free.Social flags: Bookshelves are something very physical, touchable, smellable. Also, printed book covers are great to look at.

There is in fact something magical about printed books :-) Well, not magic, but books are not just the medium of data transfer, they are also integral part of the reading experience. This is unlike music, where it doesn't matter if you're playing the content from a CD or transferring it over the network. The feeling of reading a book will always be different from using a reading device, it doesn't matter how to great the device is. Once the novelty of e-readers wears off, you will

I've found that e-readers are perfect for novels or nonfiction books meant to be read linearly from beginning to end. I don't buy paperbacks anymore because the experience is superior (lighter weight, backlight, word definitions).But I do still buy physical copies of technical textbooks or reference-style works. Ebook formatting is still just not good enough in my experience for things like code blocks and math formulas. Also, for those types of books, the ability to quickly scan th

Physical books for everything. I've been burned by too many tech companies to trust ebooks. I keep a collection of PDFs that are freely available online but otherwise I buy physical copies.