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Now I go out and buy 10 Udemy courses and have the same experience: 5 are rubbish and maybe two cover everything I need.
Fiction: almost exclusively ebook. Sometimes there's a special edition that is hard cover and has pages that feel nicely in your hand. I'll buy that. The experience becomes more than just words. In general if it is just words read in order no flipping back and forth, just read the story ebook works really well. You get to read at a comfortable font size, don't have to keep the book open(cheaply made paperbacks can be annoying, imagine reading war and peace or atlas shrugged), don't have to worry about a book mark. It estimates for you how much time left in the chapter. It's rather nice.
Coding: Almost exclusively physical. Code listing don't work that well on a kindle, or iPad. It's nice to read a little bit, go look at the code, read a little more. ebooks suck for this.
Recipe books, reference material, also physical. flipping through an ebook doesn't always work well.
Non-fiction: Mixed. For expediency e-books. To serve as a reminder to read, physical books. If I just read a topic, want to read more on that same topic I'd rather not loose momentum and go straight to an ebook. If I'm traveling, I also prefer an ebook, extra weight to carry isn't always great. A physical book is an object though and experience and sometimes that can be helpful.
Yes. It's mildly embarrassing but I've learned most languages and tech in the same way: buy a book, leave it in the bathroom and whenever I pee or poop I open it at a random page and read. If it's a new page, good if not then it's a good refresh. With ebooks it just doesn't work, with mobile devices I get distracted.
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This. My 10" e reader, boox note 2, is a godsend. It runs a barebones android which gives you almost zero distractions. Annotations are great with the touch sensitive pen. My reading increased 5-10x, b/c the friction to get that heavy book is gone. Also no more waking up the misses with a bed light, as the backlight is pretty subtle. Sorry for the sales pitch, but these devices are just awesome.
Did you consider remarkable for your usecase ever? I am in market for e-note taking and am torn between boox note 2 vs remarkable. I am not looking to be locked in for subscription just for pulling my notes from device to another PC
I remember remarkable saying the extra layer needed for the backlight would be detrimental for the writing experience.
While I have technical ebooks, they tend to be the kind that don't require much cross referencing, i.e., the kind that can be read cover to cover like a novel.
I would still buy books sometimes (fiction and non), for special editions or for things where I was buying direct (or from a good publisher) and wanted to support the author, but, I've completely stopped at this point.
At some point during the pandemic and lockdowns I realized I was drowning in physical media and I've made a very conscious effort to divest myself of as much of it as I can, donated tons of books and movies and I've bought none since.