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Physical, because they still don't translate the digital ones, right?

Until technology wizards bring us colour e ink readers it’s physical copies for me. I hate reading on glaring iPads and screens. Hurry up science, your such a let down..

I prefer a hard copy but will by digital.

It's weird because Age of Sigmar has a detailed app where you can buy the battletomes (codex) and all other rules in a good format that is readable straight from the app, it also has an army builder with updated points for 99p per month and all warscrolls (data sheets) for free.


Why such a service isn't available to the flagship game I don;t know, as I said I prefer a book but it's a great service.

Dayvuni wrote:
I am looking at buying some codices and want to know how actually using a digital codex is compared to a physical codex. The physical codex has obvious benefits like having more info on a page, easy to flip to tabbed pages, no battery life or screen brightness to worry about. But for the digital codex, I can print specific pages that I commonly reference, and having it on a device means I can carry it around more and thus I will actually read it more. Also, I cannot lose my digital copy and can carry around my collection much easier than having to carry around a stack of paper books. How does using a digital codex work in practice? Or is the physical book still the gold standard? Thanks all!

Physical copy.

At the very least, it keeps the phone away from the gaming table.

I loved my old WHFB books to death, I'd bring them to class and to bed, now I just want to be able to control F and find whatever rule or unit I'm looking for, take the hyperlink in the index straight to what I'm looking for etc. It's especially useful when sourcing fluff and you want to read up on a particular subject like darklight weapons or whatever which might have information scattered in 3-6 places in a codex, only one of them listed in the index.

A PDF works really good, there are also some less savoury ways of obtaining rules purely through army building software or on websites that conglomerate all the supplements and the codex for each faction into a single source to reduce the bloated feel of some factions. Such things shouldn't be shared openly of course.

Dai wrote:
I prefer a hard copy but will by digital.

It's weird because Age of Sigmar has a detailed app where you can buy the battletomes (codex) and all other rules in a good format that is readable straight from the app, it also has an army builder with updated points for 99p per month and all warscrolls (data sheets) for free.


Why such a service isn't available to the flagship game I don;t know, as I said I prefer a book but it's a great service.

This, 100% this!
Why is Age of Sigmar's digital options so much better than 40k's, they are the same freaking company.

I haven't bought digital because I can buy physical for basically the same price, and the physical book is generally a better quality product.