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All of my friends that are truly veracious readers prefer physical books. I've wasted a good bit of money gifting kindles. Vinyl has some hold outs, but after

All of my friends that are truly veracious readers prefer physical books. I've wasted a good bit of money gifting kindles. Vinyl has some hold outs, but after music went digital on CDs the next step to digital distribution was inevitable since ultimately music listening is an interaction that is for your ears. Many readers prefer turning pages on top of the visual experience for some reason, which I'm sure has been an impediment for bypassing publishers

joe-collins 5y ago
Vinyl doesn't merely have holdouts, but it's actually outselling CDs, now. (Granted, all physical media remains a tiny fraction of the recorded music market.) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/14/vinyl-records-outsell-cds-in-us-for-first-time-since-1980s https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/14/vinyl-records-... I figure this is mostly the trendy bandwagon at work, but from those I know who partake in such, having a highly visible piece of cover art is another motivating factor behind its resurgence.
richardatlarge 5y ago
I read all my books on my iPhone. Who needs a kindle? I used to have a massive library of books. But now in NZ, ebooks are a dream, as print edition prices are a nightmare
- radicaldreamer 5y ago
  That's really interesting... where do most of the books in NZ come from? The US has relatively low prices for print books (sometimes cheaper than eBook equivalents), but that might be a quirk of the US market.
webmaven 5y ago
> All of my friends that are truly veracious readers prefer physical books. I've wasted a good bit of money gifting kindles. Interesting. I'm a voracious reader (several novels every week), and while I suppose reading a paper book is a bit nicer on average, there is really no substitute for being able to tote around hundreds of books (both read and unread) in an ereader. There are certainly exceptions. Graphic novels and large format art books don't work too well as ebooks. Poetry can benefit from being typeset in a fixed format (line-wrap weirdness is jarring). But anything that is mostly prose that I'd otherwise be reading as a mass-market paperback might as well be an ebook instead.

joe-collins 5y ago

Vinyl doesn't merely have holdouts, but it's actually outselling CDs, now. (Granted, all physical media remains a tiny fraction of the recorded music market.) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/14/vinyl-records-outsell-cds-in-us-for-first-time-since-1980s https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/14/vinyl-records-... I figure this is mostly the trendy bandwagon at work, but from those I know who partake in such, having a highly visible piece of cover art is another motivating factor behind its resurgence.

richardatlarge 5y ago

I read all my books on my iPhone. Who needs a kindle? I used to have a massive library of books. But now in NZ, ebooks are a dream, as print edition prices are a nightmare

radicaldreamer 5y ago
That's really interesting... where do most of the books in NZ come from? The US has relatively low prices for print books (sometimes cheaper than eBook equivalents), but that might be a quirk of the US market.

webmaven 5y ago

> All of my friends that are truly veracious readers prefer physical books. I've wasted a good bit of money gifting kindles. Interesting. I'm a voracious reader (several novels every week), and while I suppose reading a paper book is a bit nicer on average, there is really no substitute for being able to tote around hundreds of books (both read and unread) in an ereader. There are certainly exceptions. Graphic novels and large format art books don't work too well as ebooks. Poetry can benefit from being typeset in a fixed format (line-wrap weirdness is jarring). But anything that is mostly prose that I'd otherwise be reading as a mass-market paperback might as well be an ebook instead.