Recently I've got the urge to read more. Not because I “need to”. I've used to read books from time to time. So I started to think, why am I not reading and how can I get back to it. Most of the books I've read, I've read on a smartphone. But lately it is not a good option for me. There are many distractions on a smartphone. And even though phones are big nowadays, they're still too small to read from comfortably, at least for me. I try to offload tasks from smartphone to desktop or laptop, because I can't hold perfect posture if I'm starting at a small screen, this is seriously bad for my neck and back. Should I read instead of doom scrolling? Suuure… But still, I need to get into it first. I don't have specific books in mind, but I do have topics that I'm interested in. So, the main question for me is this: What's the best medium to read books? In terms of: - Commitment - Price - Assortment - Comfort Everything is yet to be determined, but I bet that physical paper books are the best in terms of commitment. You bring them home. You lay them on a table. Book stares at you, begging to be read from. Perfect. The next best thing is probably e-reader, since there isn't much you can do besides, well, reading. Then goes the tablet, and everything else (smartphone, PC, laptop) sucks at this. I feel like I can do and read anything on PC or a laptop, so I don't even do it. If you bought a pdf, well, it's somewhere on the disk. Whatever. I'll just watch YouTube all day. I didn't really use an iPad for much else besides reading because other devices do it better (phone is always in a pocket, PC has a larger screen), so it works better. Maybe. Nothing beats digital books in terms of price if yarr a bloody pirate. But free stuff doesn't commit you to do anything. And paid digital stuff is so expensive, it makes me red from greed. I mean, a Kindle digital book cost like a thirty bucks. Or get a subscription. Even brand new, tangible, printed, made of paper book costs less on the same old Amazon. You pay for the convenience, I guess? These numbers just don't work in my head, so I'm not paying 30 bucks for a pdf. Brand new books are too expensive too, in my mediocre opinion (and overrated). I don't give two shits even if it has sketches inside of it, or is wrinkled. I'll take this discount, please. *Cha-ching!* Digital books win in terms of availability and assortment, you can get almost any book (or anything) in a click of a button. Even free (most of the time, it is even easier, faster). There aren't that many English books where I live. And I don't want to read translations. I really don't. There is also a question of what is available locally and what can be ordered and delivered. I've had a few books in mind that I'd like to have at hand, but they're either not available at all, or not available in English. If price is taken into consideration, that leaves me with second hand books, which limits assortment even more. Okay, maybe E-reader, then? Well, it's kind of a subpar tablet, eh? Also, not every book, especially PDF is going to work (work well) on an e-reader. Alrighty, a tablet. I've read some books on it, from cover to cover. Which one to choose? What's the best size, price and color!? Okay, I don't care about the color, but seriously, which one? I think I've reached decision fatigue on this one. There is iPad and Android. Oh, wait, there are like 10 iPad models and 5 if not more Android tablet vendors, and even more models... To be continued…