Do you own more physical books or more digital books including digital audiobooks (not including anything borrowed whether from a library or from an online service that uses DRM so you lose access if you stop subscribing)
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Do you own more physical books or more digital books including digital audiobooks (not including anything borrowed whether from a library or from an online service that uses DRM so you lose access if you stop subscribing)
If you don’t mind replying can you tell me your generation? I’m curious how this differs across generations.
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@Rycaut more physical, GenX… but these days and for a while I’ve preferred ebooks except for ones with a lot of visual content or ones that would be a thing of beauty in their own right. Most of the physical books are decades old, and often when I start re-reading them I soon re-buy as ebook anyway for comfort of reading.
Really should do the calibre thing; knowing me will leave it a day late.
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@Rycaut I'm 70, but my house burned down with all my physical books a couple of years ago. I avoided buying physical books until I moved in to my replacement house, not wanting to move too many books from the rental.
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@elysegrasso sorry to hear that and it makes total sense. Each time I have moved in the past few decades I've shed a bunch of books (a few of which I now kinda regret getting rid of - but most likely only would have gathered up dust). I've now been in one home for a decade so definitely time to do some editing. I think I have more physical than digital books but it is also hard for me to fully count all of my digital books which may be more than I realize due to past bundle purchases etc.
