Books

[Fuku]

What do you think about the paper books vs ebooks debate?

I won't lie, I feel very attached to paper books but I feel like there is actually no reason whatsoever to keep buying those instead of ebooks. Beside the fact that it feels better to buy something material for about the same price (and let's not lie, how ebooks are usually priced compared to paper books, is total bullshit and not fair at all). It just feels like materialism and adding a trophy to your bookshelf. But again, this is the rational part of me speaking. Most of me feels a deep attachment, something almost mystical about books (and this is probably just by habit and how I grew up).
If you add the space that they take (trying to go more minimalist even if I'm far from it, and even beside that, you can pack XXX books in your pocket anywhere), ease of use, and the fact that nowadays there are tablets with good screens, and even some decent big phones to read ebooks on...I don't know what's left for paper books.
The only question I'm not sure about, is which version of books is easier on the eyes and if the difference really matters.

So, what are your thoughts/habits on this topic?
 

[Sahil Pandit]

@Fuku What is there to debate?

Knowledge comes in different forms. 

[Fuku]

There is not big, deep debate here (at least not that I know off), rather more of a practical debate. This subsection of the forum has "habits" and "lifestyle" in its description so I don't think it's out of place.
Knowledge transmited is the same in both case, but I was questionning here on which form is the more practical one to use : about health (course, it's basically nothing, but we already strain our eyes so much with all the screens everywhere, I'm wondering on this particular point if reading paper books isn't actually a better idea), space taken, materialism, and, on a more global scale, environmental. And now that I'm thinking about it, maybe absorbtion of said knowledge. People seem unsure about the fact that both type of readers retain information in the same manner.

I guess there's nothing else to do than look for more studies about those points tho, this topic might actually be useless, sorry. If someone can delete it, that's fine.

[Sahil Pandit]

@Fuku No no it's fine. I appreciate your willingness to share don't get me wrong. Just remember that reading the books and applying them is better than what we are doing here (talking about what's the "best" way to go about it.)

[Fuku]

Yeah. That's probably just me postponing stuff again. If I do believe than ebooks are a better way I should just go with it and shut up about it
I'm just a bit conflicted about why I like material versions of books so much. Probably just feels good to buy and own objects.