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I love reading physical books over ebooks. The feel, the smell, the whole experience is just better. But then you put those books in a box and move them, and all that good will is lost. epub is fine. I'm good with epub.
@mike I've started going to second-hand stores and just collecting all the non-fiction books in English I can find, across a wide range of topics. I really enjoy it over reading on a screen
@tanepiper I used to do that too, and now I have literally a ton of books. I'm moving right now, and I'm not appreciating some of these boxes.
@mike @tanepiper lol, i was just about to respond with - how often do you need to put them all in a box - you'd only do it when moving right? - glad i read the conversation!
Hope the move goes well - such a stress.
@mike yep. I read too much to be able to deal with physical books any more. At school it was fine getting a box of books from the library every week, now that I've experienced the joy of a liseuse I can't go back. Not least when travelling.
For a while I had an MFD purely for the sheet-fed A3 scanner, I'd buy a box of second hand books occasionally and scan/OCR them.
But these days my local library lends ebooks!
@mike I feel this one. It's a struggle sometimes. I think the way forward for me is finding the right balance between digital and physical. For certain authors (James S.A. Corey, Adrian Tchaikovsky) I'm ALWAYS going to buy physical because I love seeing them on the shelf. For most, I'm going to buy digital because I also love highlighting and note-taking on the Kobo!
@killyourfm @mike I do this too - anything work, study or IT related goes straight to Calibre-web. I have a cupboard in my office now with the rest of my books - I just open the door every now and again to smell it!! That's not weird...
@bluegeeko @mike I mean, that's NOT weird. I'm the guy who genuinely loved the exhaust vent smell of the original LCD Steam Deck, soooooooo
@mike I also like the physical experience...but last few years I'm disliking one fact: no pinch-to-zoom feature! As I age, I'm feeling the bitter pain that physical fonts are not my my friend...at least not without my glasses! 
#gettingoldsucks
@mxu Feeling that too. My eyes have gotten weird as I've gotten older. I don't need glasses to read still, unless I have my contacts in. My eyes used to adjust fine, but no longer. I'm near sighted, but I need to take my glasses off to read.
@mike I wonder if there is a big enough/worthwhile enough market for a device that in actuality is an e-reader but has multiple pages - like a physical book with flippable pages ...but whose pages are digital so it can "become" any desired book, and have features like pinch to zoom, etc. In other words, a sort of hybrid reading device? Hmmm...
@mike I have a very similar issue, except for me it’s that I like to read before bed, and my wife and daughter don’t appreciate being woken up by a lamp when I come to bed and start reading 
So reading on my phone it is :)
@mike Especially nonfiction, I better enjoy reading physical books and those are usually from a library. Unless there's a book I really want to keep as it resonates.
But for fiction books, specifically pulp fiction books like SciFi and Fantasy - epubs all the way. Especially because I can read them late at night beside wifey if I wake up and the brain just won't quit.
@mike 
I dragged well over 400 pounds of books through many moves over 4-6 years in a desperate attempt to hold onto something I loved. When I gave (most) of them up and switched it hurt, but it hurt a lot less than carrying all those damn books. Epub is fine, really. We're lucky to have it.