How are you guys reading these days?

Pretty much all Kindle these days. I refused to get one until 4-5 years ago, but once I broke down and bought one on a prime day sale I never looked back. Just too convenient for trips and as a space saver.

I still go to b&n and buy the book. I love seeing everything on my bookshelves from the years. But these damn $20 books might change my mind soon.

Buying new from the bookstore. I enjoy taking my daughter to B&N where we'll grab drinks at Starbucks and wander around the store for an hour or so.

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Buying new? Used? Library card? Kindle? I’ve found some really good deals buying used books for pleasure and work. Just curious how you fiends are doing things.

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I usually buy new, but do a lot of research into the books so kind of know that I'll want to keep them.

Amazon has such good deals floating around you can almost always find a paperback for a good deal if you are patient and have different options of what you want to read. Feel like I rarely pay more than $8 a book in that sort of scenario.

I also still enjoy going to the bookstore and flipping through things so buy new that way.

Ya, the main thing for me is I still really enjoy flipping back and forth through books really quickly, marking pages, underlining some things, etc.

Just feel like it would be a different experience on kindle - I'll probably start looking for one over the next year though, and a library card, may be a good way to try and test out books / series before buying once I go through the must reads on my list.

So is Hoopla something with the library? Or is it a different service? I have to drive like 10+ hours weekly for work, so have been thinking about getting into audio books.

the two private companies (and there may be more) that facilitate the book being transferred to your kindle or phone are hoopla and overdrive. they will let you download an ebook for your kindle or an audiobook for your phone (that i bluetooth in the car). I've heard hoopla also allows you do download movies and tv shows for free. Both are an amazing free resource that most don't use or know about. A quick read w/out maps and/or pics is ideal for these services.

Amazon Prime still

Libby app also has audio books to check out like a virtual library. it took about 5 seconds to get a virtual library card to use with it through the app

Library on my iPad using the Overdrive app.

Kindle (electronic from library) or books from the library, plus some from our bookcase