I love the dedication to printed books.
I've stacked at least a couple hundred books in the last 2 years alone.
That said, e-books have their role as do audiobooks. Hear me out.
Audiobooks allow me to get other stuff done while consuming book content. Is there any other way to do that other than audiobooks?
E-books make it easier to find specific content in books through the use of the "ctrl+F" search function.
My research modus operandi is to listen to the audiobooks while I get other stuff done.
When I hear something significant, I pause the "other stuff I'm getting done" and open up the e-book to search for the exact string of words I heard that was significant.
Finding it first in the e-book makes it MUCH faster to find it in the printed book which I then bookmark, highlight, etc.
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If not for audiobooks I would get through far far fewer books annually. Who has time to stop everything to read?
100%.
I've gone through phases of reading. (Physical, Ebook, Audiobook)
There's a lot of books I know I'm going to read once and be done with. I don't want the physical clutter for those books etc.
I even got a speechify membership just to have pdfs of old/out of print/banned books read to me.
Though for certain books, having a physical copy is a must.
I love my Kindle and use it almost exclusively but still have a bunch of books.