If so, how do you do it? Do you use Google Play books or use apps like PDF file readers? I’m only 19 and I’m interested to start my reading hobby. Though I can also grab some books on a close bookstore nearby, I am also interested to do it digitally.

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    I read the entire Dune series on my phone, laying on my belly, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I did it with an app called eBoox, which reads different formats, making it very practical.

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    I read a little on my Palm Pilot, then did it on my phone. Switched to an e-ink reader as soon ad it was practical. Of all the devices I’ve used, phones were by far the less comfortable.

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    I could not imagine reading longer texts on my phone. I always send everything to my iPad and even then, screens are anti-relaxing to me. E-paper is fine but I prefer real books. Alternatively audio books for long car rides but that’s usually reserved for music and podcasts.

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    Yes. I’ve got a Kobo reader but mostly use the Kobo phone app to read the books I buy there. For my own files, eg from Project Gutenberg, I use ReadEra Premium, which is superior to the Kobo app. It can handle just about any format, including .mobi, which not even Amazon’s Kindle app does now. I like it a lot.

    Finally, there’s Libby, the library app. I use it mainly to read the New Yorker magazine. You need to belong to a library first. Sign up to Libby and you can borrow from the library’s collection. Mine allows you to borrow a book for two weeks, so I mainly stick to magazines.

    I’m so used to reading on my phone now that I find print books cumbersome and limiting - I always have half a dozen books on the go and can’t imagine carting around that many books.

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    My partner does and I have no idea how they stand it, for ebooks, my library works with my kobo so it’s either that or epubs. I can do a tablet for ebooks but I find the phone way too small.

    Libby is supported by a bunch of library systems on android, used KOReader for ebooks on android too.

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    If you read in any other languages, the phone is great. I make the type big to avoid eyestrain, and i have a couple of dictionaries installed for unfamiliar words. It’s so much faster than paper dictionaries - i don’t even lose my page.

    For books in English: paper.

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    Yes.

    Project Gutenberg website. They also have files you can download, but I prefer using the website.

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    It is a bit of eye strain (pixel 9a) However, I have tried with koreader which kinda makes it like a ebook, also on a tablet. It’s still an eye strain. I have however on occasion use librerareader and used the text to speech to ‘listen’ to ebooks.

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    18 hours ago

    Technically, Manga and manhwa ARE Books. So, if I round it up, I read books on pirating sites.

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    I use an ereader that runs googke text to speach which makes any book an audiobook. I listen to about a book a day.