Category: On reading

Paper and Pixels: How Serious Readers Split Their Libraries

Every committed reader eventually faces the same question at the airport gate.

Do you carry the 600-page hardcover you’re halfway through, or the slim e-reader that holds it and four hundred other titles? For years the debate was framed as a loyalty test, paper purists on one side and early adopters on the other.

Plenty of readers have quietly settled it. They read both, and they’ve developed surprisingly consistent rules about which book goes where.