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I like paper books more than e-books, but which one I read depends on the type of content.

I prefer digital version for technical stuff, because it's often hard to get hardcopied version (e.g. for documentation) and the content will most probably expire in a year or two. The only technical books I buy in paper are those that don't expire, like "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" (Hopcroft, Ullman).

On the other hand, I read novels almost exclusively on paper.

It all boils down to this: I only have so much spare place to keep paper, so I keep in paper only those that I will want to keep for ten years.



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