I like paperbacks for price and they are easier to read in bed, but I think hardcover books look nicer on my bookshelves.

i like the old kindle, aint nobody got space for carrying around books

Paperback. Hardcover is impractical. I read mainly when I use public transport or at cafe. I can imagine that the only positive thing about hardcover is a preservation for future generation. I mean when Dark Age 2 happens and somebody will need to learn how to perform an operation without courses at med school or something like that.

Digital books > Paperback books. Textbooks are the exception.

*Waves my iPad* I prefer digital.

Both. I like the size and weight of paperbacks when I'm traveling, but my aging eyes prefer the larger print.

Hardcover.

Paperbacks, although these days I mostly read books on my Android phone.

Good luck getting your favorite author to sign one of those. :D

For me it depends on the book. Books I love and read constantly I keep a shitty MM for use and a sterling untouched HC on the shelf that NO ONE is allowed to touch, breath on, or even point at. I have a 1st edition "Uncle Tom's Cabin" I haven't taken out from behind glass in ten years. My TP of it is currently holding up a short table leg.

Actually a Kindle with a bunch of author's signatures on it would be pretty bitchin'. Might have to start carrying around one of those silver sharpies just in case the opportunity arises.

Hardcover. I am a fetishist of the book: I need to have the best print available, in the original language or, if I don't know the language, the best translation available (I always check the curricula of the translators).

Also, it needs to smell good and have a good paper: I can't read while tasting napalm and touching cheap pages.

Gifting me a book is a very sensitive issue. That books sucks, man. You should gift it to me :)

hehe, to be honest I simply don't have the room for books, I'll actually be throwing out my wardrobe next month just to be able to make room for the TV I'm getting, so outside of winning the lotto and having a mansion built with it's own library, digital is really my only choice...

Because of Kindle + Cloud Reader I've read about 50 books this year. It's just too convenient (and cheap if you hunt for deals). Paper just doesn't come close to my Kindle.

For the occasional paper book I buy I prefer hardcover if it's an author I like and know I'll want to re-read it at some point. Otherwise I go with paperback for the price.

Same here, although as far as every day use goes, I'm into digital with fewer and fewer MM purchases now.

You know, it is an overly melodramatic piece of shit but for someone in the States it is such an iconic book it gets a pass for having obviously written by a teenage girl.

I wouldn't change a word of what you wrote.