[paulcole]

I can’t imagine dealing with physical books again. No interest in owning and storing them and no interest in going back and forth library to borrow.

My kindle is incredible. Wonderful screen, easy to pay money to read the books I want when I want.

I don’t get the people who fetishize printed books. I like reading, I don’t like books.

If I want the book smell, I’ll buy a scented candle lol.

[vik0]

I suppose it's a matter of preference at the end of the day.

I can't imagine myself holding a kindle or any other tablet-like reading device and reading books that way, unless a book I want to read is somehow prohibitively expensive (which again comes down to what I said in my first comment, money.)

Plus, I can't build a nice, physical library with a bunch of pdf and epub files. You might say that having a physical library is stroking one's ego a bit, which I agree with, but hey, it's an ability that's exclusive to physical books and not electronic files stored in some drive. And so is using books to prop stuff up, but that's mostly used with books one thinks are not of good quality and don't deserve to be read/read again.

[amerkhalid]

> Plus, I can't build a nice, physical library with a bunch of pdf and epub files.

I moved back to physical books as I posted in my other comment. Building a nice library that I can give to my kids is one of my goals. Hopefully, they will be happy to have those books. And if they don't want it and then we can donate books to a library or a school. It is a win-win situation.

[paulcole]

> And if they don't want it and then we can donate books to a library or a school.

Do this while you're still alive. Don't make it your kids' duty to deal with your stuff after you're dead.

I told my dad that anything he values he needs to give away because I'm junking it. I live in a tiny apartment and have no interest/room to store a collection of stuff that I don't care about.