Hardcover vs Paperback

I like harcover more, but they usually tend to be much more expensive. Ergo, I go with paperbacks for the most part.

I hate hardcovers. I think they're unnecessarilyheavy, and I hate those jackets they put on them. They slip and slide around, it drives me crazy. Plus they're expensive. Paperbacks are cheaper, lighter (this is important, I often read in bed and hold the book up in the air), and not really all that less durable (though I take care of my books). Now, if you worry about them looking nice on a shelf, so do I. The books I like better, I get the larger, $15 paperbacks. You know, the ones with the nicer paper and better looking covers. The big paperbacks are my favorite form of book.

To those of you bashing e-books, I'd say they have their place too. I have a Kindle, and I love it. I buy books on it whenever I am very impatient, or there's an old-enough-to-be-free book that I want. I don't have any large book stores where I live that aren't an hour's drive away, so the Kindle has been pretty cool. My only regret is that it seems to be killing real book stores, now that Borders is going out of business. Needless to say, I visited two of their stores, and bought a bunch of paperbacks on sale.

Paperbacks are easier to carry and much easier to store. I have several boxes full of books that I have read, and since I quite frequently re-read books I like, it's a lot more convenient to store them and scrounge them up later.

Hardcovers are great to show off to friends, but hard to tote around and awkward to read in bed.

I haven't had any experience with e-books, but I can already see one problem I'd have: maps. If I'm reading a book with a map, I often shuffle back and forth between text and map to see where events in the story are taking place geographically. I don't see that happening with the same convenience with an e-book as with a paperback or hardcover.

Hardcover usually always come out first so if it's a book I want I'm usually getting that. But I perfer paperbacks, easier to hold and read.

Paperbacks are easier to carry and much easier to store. I have several boxes full of books that I have read, and since I quite frequently re-read books I like, it's a lot more convenient to store them and scrounge them up later.

Hardcovers are great to show off to friends, but hard to tote around and awkward to read in bed.

I haven't had any experience with e-books, but I can already see one problem I'd have: maps. If I'm reading a book with a map, I often shuffle back and forth between text and map to see where events in the story are taking place geographically. I don't see that happening with the same convenience with an e-book as with a paperback or hardcover.

E-book. So much more convienent. Don't have to hold the book open, no crease in the middle, cheaper books, and it is also much faster reasing.

But out of hardcover vs paperback I prefer hardcover.

I prefer paperback most of the time, except book with a lot of photos in them.

sometimes new editions are only available in paperback - so if i'm going to buy a book and it's like that, then i'll get the paperback. i prefer hardbacks though.

Movie >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>E-Book>Hardcover>paperback.

In fact, my attention span was barely long enough to make this post.

Movie >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>E-Book>Hardcover>paperback.

In fact, my attention span was barely long enough to make this post.

Alter_Echo

Hardcover!

Well I buy all my University books in paperback as I don't mind if they get a little battered now and then, but the ones I want to keep and cherish I get in hardback. For example, my girlfriend and I are collecting these at the moment. They look so nice on the shelf :)

Well I by all my University books in paperback as I don't mind if they get a little battered now and then, but the ones I want to keep and cherish I get in hardback. For example, my girlfriend and I are collecting these at the moment. They look so nice on the shelf :)

DarthJohnova

E-bookferrari2001

I like Hardcover better

Doesn't matter to me as long as they are all in perfect condition and every book in the series is the exact same format. I can't STAND it when a new book in a series comes out and its cover design has changed. Just like the new A Song of Ice and Fire. I read all four books in paperback form and they all were the same design, then this new one comes out and is completely different, plus it is only in hardcover. It really, REALLY annoys me.

Also, I don't like hardcover books that are made cheaply and have low quality paper, like the new Terry Goodkind book The Omen Machine. I knew it was going to be cheap as soon as I saw the cover art and page length (unlike A Dance with Dragons, which had high quality paper and cardboard cover). Then, in The Sword of Truth series, the first 10 books were all the exact same height, then all of a sudden the 11th and last book in the series is .75 inches taller....Come On! Now every time I look at the series I just get annoyed.

Also, I have trouble reading books that are less than 600 pages. They usually feel rushed and incomplete to me.

Paperback just because they're cheaper.

For large books I like hardcover, but for a 200 page or less book paperback is fine.

Doesn't matter to me as long as they are all in perfect condition and every book in the series is the exact same format. I can't STAND it when a new book in a series comes out and its cover design has changed. Just like the new A Song of Ice and Fire. I read all four books in paperback form and they all were the same design, then this new one comes out and is completely different, plus it is only in hardcover. It really, REALLY annoys me.hoola

Paperback, it's cheaper and more flexible. Plus, I am not a very big fan of those jacket things.

Hardcover.A lot harder to damage.

I prefer hardcover over paperback. More durable.

Hardcover, doesn't get ugly.

I generally prefer paperbacks usually, they're just easier to hold/read, especially since I read in bed a lot.

However if there's a book I love enough to actually buy I'll invest in a hardback usually. Paperbacks seem to fall apart so quickly these days but, mind you, hardbacks aren't that well-made usually either.

I like paperback since they take up less room and thats mostly what I have. But hardcovers can be nice for reading at a desk or in my case on the floor. fastesttruck

eBook