Thread: Hardcover or paperback?

What type of books take up most of your shelf space? Or maybe you're into e-books?

I am a sucker for a nice hardcover book. I think books should be cherished and passed on to our children. I've got my eye on this at the moment: Amazon.com: The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) (9780395193952): J.R.R. Tolkien: Books

I'm more of a paperback guy, especially since hardcovers rarely reach The Philippines, and if they do, it'd be from the big shot authors and non from the middle range. Besides, hardcovers here in PH are very overrated and tend to be highly expensive. I only buy hardcovers when I really like the book, or if they're on discount as a second-hand or as an old title.

Paperbacks tend to take a great majority of my shelf space.

I do like both but i read more paper backs which i purchase mainly from charity shops as i like to think the money goes to charity. Once read they go to my works books shelf which again raises money for charity. I can't keep all my books i just don't have the space as for the Kindle it just turns me off. The Kindle is a great idea but it just seems so fake in some ways perhaps i'm just a stick in the mud, but i will always love books regardless of hard or paperback.

Someone would have to go through and count to find out which I have the most of. Hardback or paperback makes no difference to me. There's also a large collection of ebooks. The physical book is unimportant. Only the ideas contained inside concern me.

Originally Posted by TheFuhrer02

I'm more of a paperback guy, especially since hardcovers rarely reach The Philippines, and if they do, it'd be from the big shot authors and non from the middle range.

You would count yourself lucky if you saw what was on offer here. There are a couple of bookshops, they mostly stock textbooks and travel/cooking/self-help books There is about half a bookstore shelf with modern fiction, most of it of the 'bodice ripper' variety.

We have been moving round the world a lot over the last 15 years so I tend to keep a fairly light bookshelf. I arrived here with around 5 book boxes of various paperbacks and hard covers - half of them are probably cookbooks

But... I have a Kindle, which has been a life-saver. I guess I have around 5000-odd novels in Mobi, about 1500 pdfs and a couple of hundred Amazon AZW format books. So it keeps me going

The downside? My Kindle broke and it takes weeks to get the mail here from the UK. I managed to convince Amazon to replace it under warranty but it is still in the post. I bought one of the new ones from Amazon US and got a friend to post it, but that is also in the post - so I am reading hard-copy for the first time in about a year.

What a hassle! They weigh so much!

Luckily, my back-ordered copy of Abarat 3 (Clive Barker) arrived last week, so I have my fix!

Can't wait for the new Kindles to arrive... I've been lost.

Mostly paperbacks. Quite a few eBooks now. I don't usually buy hardcover, except maybe for something collectible that I really like.

I have a few hardcovers, mainly graphic novels and Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King (never read it), Winnie the Pooh. They're a hassle for me, because I like to grip the back edges with my thumbs whilst reading; that's just not a comfortable way to read a hardback for me.

Much better visually and they look better than paperbacks after ten years, but books are for reading, not looking at in my house. I'm the sort of person who gets really annoyed when there's something in contact with my arm whilst reading or playing a game, so I'm sure I'd love hardbacks if it weren't for that silly neurosis .

Mostly paperback here, but we do have quite a few hardbacks, mostly when we cannot possibly wait for the book to go paperback, from a loved author we've been waiting on. I prefer to tuck a little paperback into my hands, the hardbacks are big and clumsier. And a book read and shared, with a few good creases, is lovely.

I love hardcovers, but I usually can't afford them. Not to mention paperbacks are much easier to tote around.

I still prefer the physical book to electronic even though I have a small collection of ebooks. However if I buy the first book in a series in paperback, all that follows must be paperback. And of course if the first book I buy in a series is hardcover, all have to be hardcover. I have limited space now because of my living arrangements, so books that aren't really significant to me get purchased in ebook format. There are certain books I simply want to have in physical form and I will wait til I have the room for them.

I LOVE my hardcover books. I'm very particular with my books. I see so many people reading their's and they're bending the covers and dog-earing their pages! It makes me cringe. I won't lend them to anyone except for my best friend; I'd scream if someone broke the spine. I will loan my books to my best friend because she's the same as me; however, she still gets to listen to my warnings. No bends, stains, creases, marks or you're replacing it! lol. I could never read my books on the Kobo or whatever it's called. I like the feel of the paper in my hands, I even like the smell of them! Yes, weird! ha ha. I hate when I have a series, and then I can't get the hardcover to match the rest. My shelves are ordered with hardcovers to paperbacks, and then biggest to smallest! lol. Like I said, I'm very particular. ha ha.