Do you prefer e-books when reading about programming or paper books?

While I love the feel of a book and being able to leaf through it and hold it and such, there are a lot of benefits to the digital books! For one, I can hold thousands of books and save trees by using my kindle! I care about the environment, but really for me I care about shelf space.

:) There are 6 of us in the house, and 4 are pretty avid readers a this point, so there would just be too many books around. We buy the physical books that I want to collect or that have particular significance, and then get the rest digitally to save space! (We still go to the library and borrow books too, but now you can even do that digitally!).

I enjoy reading paperback books. They are also free to borrow from the library so you can't beat the cost. I don't normally read a book more than once so I don't really keep a collection of them at home.

I can pass an actual book around to friends or co-workers or donate it to the local library. Can't do that with an e-book. But with an e-reader I can take it anywhere and have several books at my fingertips.

When I'm waiting in the doctors office or in the airport for my flight to board or on the metro/subway, it is easy enough to flip it open and on and to the page I'm reading. That is true of books too but if I'm standing up the kindle is easier to maneuver than a book. It is also unlikely someone will try to steal a book out of my hands where an electronic device will court thieves in an open environment in the city I live in.

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