I do like both, and I’ve never understood why this is an issue, is it not the content of the book that matters? Not how that content is delivered? 🤔😁
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I like ebooks as a concept, but I hate walled-garden stuff like the Amazon Kindle. There’s probably devices that are okay, I’ve just not been particularly motivated to find one of those. I buy most of my books secondhand anyway, chances are that I’d only read legally free (e.g. fanfiction) and pirated books on my ereader.
That said, I haven’t seen much in way of heated (verbal) battles about this. I don’t hang out in book enthusiast spaces, though.
I’m a big fan of my Nook that I used ADB to install additional apps and rebind some buttons! I found it used for like $40, and it’s definitely worth it. Reading manga on e-ink is really cool.
The FOSS software Calibre and its DRM stripping addons allow you to effectively use any ereader with any ebook format by allowing you to convert files from any type to any type, and it supports syncing with pretty much anything through USB.
There’s also a whole small industry of chinese manufacturers releasing ereaders that are just stripped down android with e-ink screens, so you can toss whatever app you want on them for opening the files. Some even have wi-fi and sim card support for internet over cell data plan, so you can toss a pirate manga app on them and go to town with that too.
There are color e-ink screens now as well, so some people will read full color comics on them.
I think the chinese android eink device brand I saw getting the most good reviews was boox. I think a number of them also work as eink notebooks for note taking as well.
Any cheapo tablet and your town library’s app means you can read a lot for free, and you’re supporting your local community!
I’m a fan of pocketbook for that ‘it just reads’ aspect. They do have a store but it’s purely optional, they pretty much work with whatever you dump on it.
It’s just elitism by people who collect first editions, and/or have the leisure time to sit and read.
You have the same division between readers and audiobook listeners. Like fuck you if you work long hours and you listen to a book in the car when you couldn’t otherwise just read. “Stop being poor and come live a life of leisure.”
Way I see it, my phone doesn’t get heavier with 100 books on it. So my books are ebooks, or audiobooks. I like to run both at the same time, especially if there are a bunch of names to keep track of (e.g. high fantasy).
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It’s not the ebooks that are bad, it’s the prison of proprietory technological ecosytems which makes them bad. With Kindles, Amazon can even monitor your reading habits.
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@weirdfish Except ebooks absolutely does not need to mean Amazon Kindle ebooks. Or even DRM-encumbered ebooks. Yes there are plenty of ebooks that are either or both and not legally available otherwise (that’s a choice), but there are also huge numbers of ebooks (and ways to read them) which are really not more privacy-invasive than a print book. (Though in fairness, they do tend to be a bit harder to buy anonymously like with cash.)
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btw, my ebook reader is completely offline and I only use it for books from #ProjectGutenberg and similar sources.
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Where I come from, one of the digital book sellers went bankrupt and you’ve had to actively export your ebook licenses to another vendor, or else they would have been lost. Now that’s what I call #enshittification@weirdfish @NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop @joinin i stopped buying ebooks I can’t export via calibre. I also hate reading on apps, so anything that’s not epub is basically off the table automatically. Unfortunately, that basically means no ebooks in my native language.
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Amazon can also (and have) pushed “corrections” to books that people have “bought”.
Books for the vibes. Ebooks and audiobooks for the convenience.
I love reading books on my phone, so I suppose that makes me a “neither” kind of person.
I don’t need epaper, the display on my phone is absolutely amazing, text is sharper than is possible on print. And I don’t depend on light for reading, the phone adjusts the brightness of the screen to be suitable in a dark room too.
The convenience of using my phone is unmatched by either e-readers or physical books.
Using an e-book format also makes it possible to easily look up things as you read. And of course it makes it possible to search the book.Using e-book on a standard mobile device (not a specific e-book reader) also allows you to subscribe to book services similar to Spotify for music. That way you always have access to new books.
Paper books are vastly inferior IMO. They are heavy, and they are cumbersome when you read in bed, they require lighting suitable for reading, and they have no search options, and they also smell.
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All my e-books are without DRM, to me DRM is not an option. So if a book isn’t available without DRM, I simply don’t read that book. Needless to say I don’t use stores/services like Amazon that IMO are completely fucked up.PPS:
My sister suffer from near chronic migraines, and because of that she prefer paper books. So different strokes for different people.Physical books for display and collection, ebooks for convenience.
It depends on the book for me. Most things, it won’t really matter to me as long as I can get a format for my Kobo.
I tend to prefer physical for things more along the lines of a textbook.
That being said, I do just prefer the heft and scent and feel of a real book, but I read more on my kobo.
@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop @joinin For me it depends on what is in it. For a “pure” book with only text, ebook is fine. When you have graphs, images, photos, etc: science books, comics, art books, etc, I still do prefer the physical ones.
