[foxbarrington]

I know you said physical, but as an author if a student emailed me and asked for a discount on a digital edition, I'd give them a big discount code without a second thought. It's costless and easy for me to provide. Physical is not costless and is more complicated.

Also, digital has a lot of advantages for books that are likely to get updates.

[Cyckes]

For me digital is useful for being able to do lookups of something I already know but forgot the details to. However learning something I don't know I cannot be constrained to a tiny phone screen, or a chair, or a laptop. Anything with a screen ends up being associated with other content and it's very difficult to move away from that. With a physical book, I can nest, and I'll actually read it.

My peers have it worse than I do, anything with a screen is snapchat, tiktok, insta, text messages, etc etc. There's so much distraction almost programmed into us.

I do respect that though. Some people learn better digitally or at least don't mind it, and that is the most accessible method. Thank you for your thoughts.

[krigath]

I used to think I couldn't read on a Kindle, but it removes all the distractions and feels more like a proper book. Especially coupled with an audio version I find that I can often finish books in 1-3 days where it would have taken me weeks in the past.

That being said I fully appreciate a good physical textbook for cases where there's a lot of diagrams, etc.