25 Authors: Hardback, Paperback, Ebook or Audiobook
25 Authors: Hardback, Paperback, Ebook or Audiobook
Abbie Greaves
Hardbacks for my shelves. Paperbacks for happy holding. Ebook for ease and making sure I’m never without multiple reading options. Audiobooks for when I have a backlog of chores!
Victoria Schade
Hardback or paperback, please. I love the immediacy of ebooks (“Ooh! I want to read that book now.” and *boop* there it is!) but ebooks don’t feel as real to me.
Stephanie Wrobel
Hardback. They may be impractical to tote around but I love the jackets, the endpapers, the regal look of them.
Rashi Rohatgi
Paperbacks and e-books read on my phone. I want to read everywhere, all the time, so portability is key. Clearly I should get into audiobooks, but I find sounds quite overwhelming in general – I don’t even own headphones.
Barbara Kavovit
Paperback- always needs to fit in my bag!
Jill Shalvis
ANY and all. I mean my heart craves holding a real book, but my eyes beg for ebook, and I hike a lot and love listening to audiobooks on the trail. Basically any book, any format, all the time. :)
Brandy Scott
Audiobook for non-fiction, paperback for fiction and research, e-book for travelling. Hardbacks are too heavy to read in the bath; my arms get tired.
Sally Hepworth
All of them! If I love a book, I usually have it in all formats. Although I find hardbacks more difficult to read—I usually just keep them for show.
Rachel Hobbs
Hardback for pride of place, but paperback for when you want that textile reading experience. Ebook for portability, and audiobook for when your tired brain just wants to hear a story. Oh, I have to choose? In that case, I’ll go ebook. I have thousands of them waiting to be read!
Beth Morrey
For practical purposes I am happy to read ebooks, as kindles are easier to carry. But for some books - for example, CJ Sansom's Shardlake series - then I have to have it as a hardback, as soon as it's published. Is there any greater pleasure than opening a great brick of a book that you KNOW you're going to love, with it all ahead of you? It's a more pleasurable anticipation in physical form.
Karin Tanabe
Hardback and ebook, switching back and forth.
Martha Waters
Paperback! You still get that nice physical book feeling, but it’s not too heavy to carry around in your purse.
Lian Dolan
Hardback at home, ebook on the plane and audio book on long drives in the car, and paperback for the ones I missed the first time around. I love mixing it up and taking it all in. A good story comes in many forms.
Meg Waite Clayton
for reading: paperback. Although I do collect hardcover first editions.
Whitney Scharer
Anything but ebook. When I read an ebook, it goes right out of my brain. I literally can’t even recall the titles of ebooks I’ve read without looking at my digital library. Totally pointless for me!
Christine Meade
Paperback all the way.
Alison Hammer
I love reading a paperback book, but because of how busy and hectic my life is, I’ve learned to love audio books. I can listen when I’m doing almost everything—except for when I’m drying my hair. I haven’t figured that one out yet.
Sally Whitney
Definitely paperback. I like the feel of the book in my hands and the appearance of the words on the page. The light weight and portability of paperbacks make them preferable to hardbacks. They also require less space to store. I’m also a fan of audiobooks, especially when I’m driving. It makes me antsy if I have to drive very far without a book to listen to. One of my favorite narrators is Joshilyn Jackson reading the novels she writes. She totally nails the voice of every character.
Aimee Liu
Both audiobooks and hardcovers, though most of the books I read are paperbacks. I love the experience of listening to an audiobooks, but I love the physical heft and beauty of a hardcover. I often read both versions in tandem, since it’s difficult to savor and return to passages when listening to a story. I am not a fan of ebooks at all, except for the convenience when traveling.
Suzanne Nugent
I love audiobooks best of all, but if it’s something I will refer back to, then I’ll take a paperback.
Rani Shah
Paperback, easiest to snuggle with into a comfy chair or a really chunky blanket.
Dani Alpert
I love hardback but ebooks are better for the environment.
Donna Baier Stein
All four. Though I find myself tending more and more to audiobook because I love to listen while I am driving and because I stare at words much of the day
Kris Waldherr
I love hardcovers for collecting, but as a Brooklynite I prefer paperbacks for reading on the subway. I do read e-books for convenience on my phone, but I find it a distracting experience. Believe it or not, I’ve never listened to an audiobook—I’m looking forward to rectifying that when the audiobook of THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS comes out.
Crystal King
ebook. I read so much and so fast (800-1K words a min) that an e-reader makes that much more manageable for me.
