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Do you prefer digital or physical books? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Do you prefer digital or physical books?

Digital. I live in 76ft^2^ and can no longer store thousands of physical books like I did in a "sticks and bricks" house. But there are ~13,000 easily stored between the e-ink kindle and waiting in the wings in calibre.

Reading is a big part of my retirement plan.

[–] fred@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I haven't investigated, but I'd give digital books a shake if I could find a solution that doesn't put control of my library in the hands of Amazon or similar, phone home for analytics, etc. I don't object to the idea in principal. But until I feel safe doing it, I'm still reading physical books.

[–] vairse@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I haven't used it yet, but I hear Libby with a local library card does well. You're still not owning the books, but they're free