Books are great, right? I love nothing more than curling up with a cuppa on the sofa or under the duvet and getting lost in a world someone else invented or described. For about 6 years now I’ve been mostly reading fiction on a Kindle. Initially dubious, I was won over by the fact I still managed to get lost in the words – it turned out it wasn’t the cover or the feel of the paper or the smell of a book that got me going, it was the story.
There was another factor in my shift, one aside from me being a little bit geeky, that was space. There’s only so many bookcases and bookshelves you can squeeze into a 1-bedroom flat and I was running out of room. That said, I still buy books because a beautiful cover is hard to resist.
In the end, whatever format you choose to read in it’s okay because after all the book’s the thing.