@Gabz I was reluctant to buy/trust digital game downloads for quite awhile. I worried about games disappearing online (which does happen), internet or server outage or etc. But I caved in and we always go with the digital downloads when we can. Now that there are 3 in our household sharing consoles not having to worry about swapping cartridges/disks is enough in itself to have swayed me.
For myself I am nearly all in on digital books, magazines and newspapers. Carrying my iPad on trip and having books to read is much better than the “real” kind plus when I’m at home if I want to check something in a book I’ve read I can actually find the book online and then search within it for what I saw.
The flip side is we always buy the books for the kids in print form. No digital distractions and I’ve noticed they seem to enjoy the experience of curling up with a book.
@ronguest Same here! For a long time, I wasn't sure I wanted to go all-digital. I started with comics unless it was a nice cover of a specific artist then I would buy both actually lol. Movies I just buy digital, especially since I've earned about HDMovieCodes, we buy from there almost all the time. Books It's just more convenient, but yeah we still buy physical for the kiddos.
@Gabz @ronguest I went through an all-digital phase but the experience of reading books on a device (even my Kindle) is practical but ultimately joyless for me so it's all "real" books now. I say that, but I'm in the first half of a 1,100-page novel and after about 30 minutes I start having second thoughts (and shoulder pain) :).
@jack Each definitely has it’s place, I don’t think it is all or nothing. When my wife was in the hospital for some serious surgery I had no interest in reading on my iPad. I took some paperbacks instead and devoured those to help kill time. I don’t know why a physical book was all I wanted to read but it was so much more calming whereas the iPad I pick up, forget what I’d read, and put it down again within a few minutes.
@jack @ronguest @Gabz My absolute favorite reason to use Apple's Books app is the scrolling option. Endless scrolling on a book? One more page is the entire book? I don't know why I love it, but I do. The typography is lovely, as well. I have an older (maybe 2nd or 3rd generation) Kindle Paperwhite, and I find page turns sluggish on it. When you're reading a 400K+ work novel by Brandon Sanderson, most iPads and Kindles weigh quite a bit less than the book.
@dgreene196 I don’t think I’ve read a book on iBooks , the two or three I’ve got are on the kindle app
There are lots of books in the public domain if you ever want to try it out without a financial outlay. As an example, here's Little Women, a recent movie that my wife adored. Perhaps this is one of the classics I should read this year?