[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

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.

me: audiobook.
Wife: E-reader.

Paper

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I want the physical book for the shelf but I read the ebook on my smartphone. Way more convenient for me.

Paper, outdoors.

Love paper books, but audiobooks have converted me. I love being able to do chores and listen to a story

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.

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!

i like all three. do i have to pick?

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

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!

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