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I love my kindle, but having moved house and now having actual space I'm very tempted to get back into buying regular books. They don't format out; they don't vanish or have issues and honestly they are a lot easier to browse.
Well, until you have 50 years worth of books, and comic books, and games, and miniatures crammed into boxes in the closets and garage, and the storage room.
I almost never buy hardcopy books anymore. 90% of my purchases are digital. I don't have room for new books.
I have every Necromunda splat book as an eBook. The only hardback Necromunda book I bought in the last 10 years with the Core Rulebook release a couple years.
F - is the Fire that rains from the skies.
U - for Uranium Bomb!
N - is for No Survivors...
As long as they continue to print actual books I'll continue to read them.
Never been a fan of e-books.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
"Vulkan: There will be no Rad or Phosphex in my legion. We shall fight wars humanely. Some things should be left in the dark age." "Ferrus: Oh cool, when are you going to stop burning people to death?" "Vulkan: I do not understand the question."
– A conversation between the X and XVIII Primarchs
I love my kindle, but having moved house and now having actual space I'm very tempted to get back into buying regular books. They don't format out; they don't vanish or have issues and honestly they are a lot easier to browse.
Well, until you have 50 years worth of books, and comic books, and games, and miniatures crammed into boxes in the closets and garage, and the storage room.
I almost never buy hardcopy books anymore. 90% of my purchases are digital. I don't have room for new books.
I have every Necromunda splat book as an eBook. The only hardback Necromunda book I bought in the last 10 years with the Core Rulebook release a couple years.
Oh that's half the reason my kindle library grew in the first place. I was squashed in; books atop books in cupboards and boxes; stacked in piles infront of other piles and so forth.
The other half is the ease of reading in bed without having to contort your back for the night-light or such to read the pages. Backlights in Kindles are fantastic. Was the main reason I went from keyboard kindle to paperwite.
I had to move country twice in a relatively short time, and carting my massive book collection with me was just a non-starter sadly. I kept a lot of books but equally I had to get rid of a lot of them too.
Good luck to everyone saying they'll just buy physical books - they never reprint them anymore. So once that initial wave is gone they're gone for good (or you can buy a copy for 10X the price on Ebay).
I gave up on reading any Black Library anything years ago now because I'm stuck mid-series in a bunch of stuff.
Schmapdi wrote: Good luck to everyone saying they'll just buy physical books - they never reprint them anymore. So once that initial wave is gone they're gone for good (or you can buy a copy for 10X the price on Ebay).
I gave up on reading any Black Library anything years ago now because I'm stuck mid-series in a bunch of stuff.
Yeah. That sucks sometimes...
Check thriftbooks, I've bought a lot of 40k books for a lot less than retail.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
"Vulkan: There will be no Rad or Phosphex in my legion. We shall fight wars humanely. Some things should be left in the dark age." "Ferrus: Oh cool, when are you going to stop burning people to death?" "Vulkan: I do not understand the question."
– A conversation between the X and XVIII Primarchs
Yeah obviously if a book is not available I just won't buy it. I'm not too worried about it. Black Library is popcorn entertainment for me, not something I really need in my life.
I love my kindle, but having moved house and now having actual space I'm very tempted to get back into buying regular books. They don't format out; they don't vanish or have issues and honestly they are a lot easier to browse.
Well, until you have 50 years worth of books, and comic books, and games, and miniatures crammed into boxes in the closets and garage, and the storage room.
I almost never buy hardcopy books anymore. 90% of my purchases are digital. I don't have room for new books.
I have every Necromunda splat book as an eBook. The only hardback Necromunda book I bought in the last 10 years with the Core Rulebook release a couple years.
I've got into the habit of buying paperbacks, reading them, then donating them. Only stuff I really like gets to stick around. My shelves are mostly stuff I have waiting to be read. You just have to get over that "but what if I want to randomly read it again in 14 years?" feeling.
I love my kindle, but having moved house and now having actual space I'm very tempted to get back into buying regular books. They don't format out; they don't vanish or have issues and honestly they are a lot easier to browse.
Well, until you have 50 years worth of books, and comic books, and games, and miniatures crammed into boxes in the closets and garage, and the storage room.
I almost never buy hardcopy books anymore. 90% of my purchases are digital. I don't have room for new books.
I have every Necromunda splat book as an eBook. The only hardback Necromunda book I bought in the last 10 years with the Core Rulebook release a couple years.
I've got into the habit of buying paperbacks, reading them, then donating them. Only stuff I really like gets to stick around. My shelves are mostly stuff I have waiting to be read. You just have to get over that "but what if I want to randomly read it again in 14 years?" feeling.
But then you can't build a fort!
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I love my kindle, but having moved house and now having actual space I'm very tempted to get back into buying regular books. They don't format out; they don't vanish or have issues and honestly they are a lot easier to browse.
Well, until you have 50 years worth of books, and comic books, and games, and miniatures crammed into boxes in the closets and garage, and the storage room.
I almost never buy hardcopy books anymore. 90% of my purchases are digital. I don't have room for new books.
I have every Necromunda splat book as an eBook. The only hardback Necromunda book I bought in the last 10 years with the Core Rulebook release a couple years.
I've got into the habit of buying paperbacks, reading them, then donating them. Only stuff I really like gets to stick around. My shelves are mostly stuff I have waiting to be read. You just have to get over that "but what if I want to randomly read it again in 14 years?" feeling.
It's not random, I reread stuff all the time. Right now I'm rereading a book series from the 90s. Last week I was reading the series before that from the late 80s.
F - is the Fire that rains from the skies.
U - for Uranium Bomb!
N - is for No Survivors...
Schmapdi wrote: Good luck to everyone saying they'll just buy physical books - they never reprint them anymore. So once that initial wave is gone they're gone for good (or you can buy a copy for 10X the price on Ebay).
I gave up on reading any Black Library anything years ago now because I'm stuck mid-series in a bunch of stuff.
This is where I am. By the time I find out about a BL book I want to buy, it’s become unaffordable.
Schmapdi wrote: Good luck to everyone saying they'll just buy physical books - they never reprint them anymore. So once that initial wave is gone they're gone for good (or you can buy a copy for 10X the price on Ebay).
I gave up on reading any Black Library anything years ago now because I'm stuck mid-series in a bunch of stuff.
Yeah. That sucks sometimes...
Check thriftbooks, I've bought a lot of 40k books for a lot less than retail.
I used to buy whatever random Black Library stuff I'd find in used bookstores all the time, but that supply dried up years ago now. On the rare occasion there are any BL books in stock now they are behind glass and with price tags in the triple digits. It's so stupid.
