Do you prefer physical books, ebooks, or audiobooks?

Just wondering, as someone who tried the latter two but still prefers physical books. I'm slowly building up a physical book collection. They just also seem to be cheaper, especially if I get them from a library sale or a used book store. I get the convenience of the other two, but there's something about the feel of physical books, especially being able to physically feel how much you have read and how much you still have to go.

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onewithshoes · 22-25, F

We've reached the point where we have to question the wisdom of cutting down trees to store information.
We've also reached he point where we have to ask why the internet shouldn't be a huge public library.
That brings us, though, to the point of needing to ask how authors are to be incentivised to write.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@onewithshoes Paper pulp can be made from crop trees, but whether it always is, I would not like to say.

Anyway, the more the Internet expands the greedier it is for electricity, trading one environmental problem for another.

I suppose authors could be persuaded to write if they know their work is still available for sale, even if digitally rather than on paper. Also, for readers as well as authors, if each book will still be available in ten, twenty... x years time or simply deleted on a calendar-based whim by the web-sites' bean-counters. There have already been many questions raised about the behaviour of music-streamers, in both royalties and long-term retention.