There's nothing like a printed book for me.

I'm bilingual, I guess? I read books as regular books and as kindle books, and I read articles online (more and more these days), but also can and do read articles in magazines and papers if they're around. I definitely prefer an e-reader for traveling, simply for the sake of packing light (I read maybe a book every 1-2 days even when not on vacation). But day-to-day, I'll take whichever's there.

Exceptions are any sort of book where I might be flipping back and forth a lot (textbooks, manuals, anything with foot/endnotes, or even a book like House of Leaves that's simply formatted in a way that's meant for print).

Can be both for me or i can say based in my mood. There are days I like to read through a hard copy books and then the other day a soft copy. Well, if im force to choose, i preferredf the Physical one tho.. id like to keep as souvenir and also mark those beautiful quotes and phrases.

I believe everything carries energy. And the analog version of everything thing like vinyl, tape, live performance, paper, speech, touch, experience leaves more of in imprint than a digital version which is always compressed. There are no perfect circles. There is no such thing as lossless.

Physical for me dawg love to mark up a book with book marks aka proof of work when I get bored or want to read I can just open one of the markers n read what impacted me when I read the book last

Well, one doesn't exclude the other. For example: many people I know prefer the touch-and-feel of books, which is something that I get. But I also find books quite inconvenient, especially in low-light situations or when I'm traveling. For those use cases, I find my e-reader 100 times better. As an alternative, when I cannot pack a lot of stuff but still need to be productive while on the move, I don't mind to occasionally use my iPad as a reading device, especially after having applied a Paperlike screen protector. I also find it quite nice to make notes with the pencil or to highlight sentences/paragraphs that I find particularly interesting. I would feel bad to do the same on a book, to be honest...

For years we wanted to do digital publishing and the technology came and it was good. Then the idea of a beautiful manuscript also came to light and that was good, too. We wrote with pencils, pens, crayons and typewriters. Then the word processor crept in and the idea of writing once and then editing became available. So then became the distractions of digital media.

We used to publish with Xerox machines and we learned the lessons of how it must be a direct run with beautifully edited plates. Otherwise the second run of the first run would look like garbage. Again the digital media beckoned.

Even the old idea of verbal to text was selling and still it was not as good as typing. Now we are feeling the push of the "Artificial Intelligence" and it is soulless and gutless. The memes are funny but that is the composition in text.

The digital reader is a very good thing but it must be flow-able text. The PDF is not a good tool for digital reading as it is dependent on the original composition and layout and the canvas is not the destination.