Physical books or electronic books.... the great debate...
I've always read since I was small, and it's always been physical books.
When my mums friend got a kindle and started bugging me to get one, I resisted (typical teenager attitude to any pressure), then mum got one and I occasionally stole/borrowed it to see what all it could do, then for my 20th birthday, mum bought me one too... I caved in and loved it! (The fact that she'd made me a personalised Jack Skellington cover from scratch didn't help either.)
I will admit that with both our kindle on the same Amazon account, we can share books easily, and there's so many (decent) free books out there!!
However, if I'd already started a series with physical books, I tend to continue them as physical ones, plus when I eventually build my dream house with a library, I'll need lot of books to fill up the shelves ;)
(I also like to frequent my local waterstones, so end up buying physical books there, and of course I've then got to continue with physical ones then.... ;) )
Kindles are so much lighter that books though, and it makes reading big books in bed or lying on the sofa so much easier. Also takes up less space than 4 books when you're traveling.
Sometimes you're cheaper searching around and getting the physical books rather than the kindle ones (Lord of the rings trilogy was an example, £15 for kindle, got the 3 books in a charity for shop a BOGOF offer (plus another random book) for £2), but more times than not, you're cheaper with the kindle version, (ASOIAF is another example, about £8 for all 7 books on kindle, and was looking about £35 to get them all second hand off play.com)
Another bonus with kindles is that no one can see what you're reading at a glace ;)
A down side with kindles is, you can't get manga books to work on them (boo hiss!) :'(
Kindles (and other e-readers) can make your eyesight worse (proven or not? I think they do, as mine has since I got my kindle...)
Physical books have better art work :D
But, really, both have their pros and cons, and it's all personal preference :)
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