I love to read and reading is important to me, but I never felt "romantically" about #books themselves. I'm no Rory Gilmore. I won't spent hours in a library or a bookstore, I am not delighted by the smell of printed books , for me it was always the reading - not the books. So yeah, I'm an ebooks kind of girl, especially since I am hopping between two homes every week.
@Virelai I do romanticise physical books myself. Even have wanted to learn about bookbinding, which is its own little crafting community.
@JordiGH @Virelai There are some truly gorgeous books out there, for sure. Myself, I've kind of got a foot in both camps.
When I was young and e-ink wasn't a thing, I used to have a biiiiiiig shelf full of mass market paper backs (often with packing tape for spines after rattling around in a backpack too long) and a smaller one of much handsomer books I wanted as a collector piece.
Now I'm moving toward having just a kindle and the smaller shelf.
@Nentuaby @Virelai I get too much anxiety from devices I don't feel like I can control. If I could get a hackable e-ink reader with no network hardware, I might consider reading on it. But since this doesn't exist, I'm still on physical books.