Do you buy paperback books?

[Veggieburgers]

I would like some indication of how many people still buy a physical book, in preference to an e book.

Yep, only buy physical copies. Have not and will never use an ebook…but then I work in a bookshop! Long live the book…!

Yes, but mainly second hand.

Yes, a couple every month.

Yes, but also ebooks.

I do, I love books. I spend my working week in front of a screen - don't want to do it in my spare time too.

Yes. I prefer to read a book than a screen. I also enjoy audio books while cleaning etc.

Yes, but rarely new.

Yes. And lovely hardbacks too. Books are my main indulgence. I'm a right sucker for a beautiful cover and sprayed edges. Add a signature and I'll throw my money at you.

I have not bought a fiction ebook for a long time. I have however recently discovered buying non fiction for work or uni as ebooks as the ability to highlight sections and then bring up anything I've highlighted easily is very handy.

Me!

Sometimes, depends on the book. If I do, usually 2nd hand

I only buy physical books.
Paperback . Hardback. I tried audiobooks, but the voice of the reader often annoys me, so physical book it is.

Never ebooks. Either paperback or wait for the library. Will happily purchase hardbacks of much loved collections or a book I want desperately on launch day.

No, I like having everything on my Kindle, especially when I go away!

Had a kindle, it was forced on me by my well meaning DH. I got rid of it and when we moved to a bigger house I treated us (me) to two huge bookcases that I have to regularly cull. I love a real book. The excitement, but also the sadness and seeing how close you are to the end!

Not at the minute. I much prefer a physical book but often I am reading in the dark lying next to a DC, so my kindle is so handy for that.

Snugglemonkey, same here.

I do buy paperbacks. Although sometimes as the length of time between hardback and paperback release means a new release book that I like the look of I have sometimes forgotten about by the time the paperback is finally released.
Skip the hardback edition !

I like to buy something tangible that I can physically hold in my hand, rather than something that exists only in the ether.

Always books. Tried a kindle and hated it. Audio books are only for long solo car journeys. The concrete physicality of the book is part of the pleasure of reading for me.

Yes I still buy a lot of books of many genres, and a mixture of new and secondhand. I use ebooks very little.

Yes, yes, yes! I’m an English graduate and bookaholic. I buy about a book a week on average (don’t quite manage to read one a week though, so I’m always piling up books on the TBR pile). I only buy brand new paperbacks, literary fiction. The joy of fresh, unread pages, the smell of the paper, the feeling as you work your way through it as the spine gets wrinkly. I put my name on the first page and the year, like a schoolgirl. And I don’t use bookmarks, I fold the corner of the page down so there is a physical trace of me working my way through them.

Reading is my only hobby that I manage to fit in with small children and a full on job, so I’m practically religious about it…

Yes, usually second hand unless I've been given a voucher or really want to read a new one that is out.

Yes, loads!

I was a staunch paperback fan, usually second hand from charity shops though rather than brand new. As a fast reader who travels a lot for work I have now switched to a Kindle Paperwhite, purely down to space for 3-4 books per week and tbh I'm loving the ease and mobility of the Kindle.

Yes but also ebooks for my kindle, I like to have both