I vastly prefer paper books - it’s a much better reading experience for me. I tend to get my books from the library if I can, or otherwise usually Amazon.

All of the books I’ve read over the last few years have been ePubs on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 because yarr, but if I read them for longer than an hour I start to get a headache. For that reason alone I think physical books are far superior.

If a DRM-free digital version is available and any of these conditions apply:

• is free in digital form
• needs to be written on
• receives and provides me updates without extra costs
• doesn’t have physical eye-candy editions
• is too big

then I buy the digital version.

I buy physical books second-hand, usually from booklooker, a German platform.

So that’s hard to answer for me.

I like physical because I then own the thing and can do what I want with it or give it away.

But digital is easier to read for me. I’ve never been a particularly fast reader, I also have eye floaties, and I might be dyslexic. But having like Edge use its read aloud feature (for whatever reason the built-in read aloud voice is the most pleasant to listen to, less sharp) I can crank up the speed and just follow along as it reads it to me and I can process it so much easier and faster than if I had to do it the old fashioned way.

Why not both?

I use my little Kobo for reading in bed or when out and about but prefer an actual book if I can. Also I don’t buy many and use the local library most of the time.