Physical. By a long shot.

eBook if I am on a plane.

Audiobook – puts me to sleep. I think faster than they read. My mind wanders when I listen to Audiobooks.

PDF is a crappy rendition of an ebook.

Me likes to look at da pikchers :)

Ebook, usually, for ease of transport and adjustability of font size, margins, etc. I also still read paper books. I’ll listen to audiobooks on long drives.

I prefer my Kindle, because I have a variety of books in a small package, and it has built in reference material. I read faster on my Kindle because of the size of the margins.

I use my Kindle Paperwhite mostly on trips and prefer holding physical books at home, though sometimes I do the opposite depending on my mood, the lighting, and of course which form the book is in.

As for audio books, not my style. As a writer and lover of well written words, I prefer actively reading them to listening passively.

I prefer eBooks. I don’t really like audiobooks, because it’s not actually reading.

I prefer eBooks because I simply don’t have the space in my house for books. Plus its much more convenient to carry around an iPad rather than physical books.

Physical book. I do too much looking at screens already, and it hurts my eyes and dulls my brain to look at more screens. I also enjoy the physicality of the pages, and the ability to not have to handle anything electronic while reading. And the ability to read outdoors in bright sunlight.

I like them in the order listed.

A. the physical copy of a book
B. eBook
C. pdf form
D. audiobook

Though for traveling and commuting, I do carry ebooks on a Nook and I read ebooks on my laptop.

I never listen to audio books. It doesn’t work for me. I stop paying attention, most often because I pick up an actual book and start reading.

Would prefer physical books over ebooks normally. But nowadays using my Kindle frequently due to ease of searching books I’m looking for / happen to find interesting read while searching something else and ability to download / purchase right away for use. Getting bit lazy these days..)

I prefer physical books, aesthetically, but e-books do have a certain practicality. PDF format is OK, sometimes limited by device. Audiobooks can be good if they’re recorded by the author, otherwise I prefer to hear my own inflection in my head.

I like physical books most of all. I like the smell and feel of them. My second favorite format is pdf. I have tons of books in pdf format that fit in a little one and half pound laptop that can be wifi’d to a 52” flatscreen, and even more in a terabyte external harddrive that weighs only ounces and is smaller than a deck of cards. Enough to fill whole rooms with books. I’m a bit of a glutton when it comes to books.

I love real books so much.. The yellow pages from age and that fantastic smell. If I want to read a book on ATV development a PDF is fine. If I want some Hemingway I demand a aged paper book and a bottle of rum.

@johnpowell Arrgh! Yo-ho-ho!

Physical book. I have eyesight problems, staring at the screen strains my eyes. Also, holding the book in your hand is a very specific experience.

But, I am totally for the concept of ebooks and pdfs. It helps greatly with very thick textbooks and books you can’t find in your language or area.

As for audio books, I don’t really like it. I am not used to listening to someone else reading stuff to me. But I did take it when I wanted to read and listen Don Quixote at the same time. That was cool. I think it kind of helps when learning a foreign language.

I prefer to read physical books. I listen to audiobooks while doing crafts that require hand-eye coordination but little mental ability (weaving, for instance). I am very picky about audiobooks. I almost always listen to nonfiction, nearly exclusively science-related (notable exceptions include Dune: House Atreides, read by Tim Curry. Found it on cassette at a used book store and I can’t find the rest of the series to save my life. HAALP.). I also like The Great Courses and The Modern Scholar lecture series, which I can check out from the library.

@Sneki95: I still also read paper books sometimes, but just as an FYI, have you tried the ereaders with e-ink technology? It’s like reading a paper page, not a screen. I get headachy reading a book on a screen, but the e-ink doesn’t affect me negatively.

I read material in all of those formats. It’s all about why I’m reading and availability.

I love physical books, but they’re heavy and I can’t transport them easily. Plus they cost more than an ebook.

Ebooks are great if I’m reading a novel, not so great if it’s a scholarly text. So I tend to buy them and print them off. Saves me a fortune and reduces the time cost because I can get the book now and have no postage costs.

Pdfs are good for journal articles, and reports.

Audiobooks would be my least favourite. As others have said I find it distracting to have someone read to me. Not sure why that is, but it doesn’t work well for me. However, it does mean I can listen to a book while exercising, when I’ve had eye problems and I’ve tried listening to books with my husband. Not terribly successful, but we tried it.

I like to listen to audiobooks as well while im doing crats.
Listened to a lot when I had to crochet blankets a few months ago.
Is weaving hard @Seek looks interesting?