I pirate shamelessly. Z-lib is my to-go.

Mostly borrow ebooks from the public library. There is a small new-and-used bookstore near me, one of those classic “open 3 hours a day, more if we feel like it” ones. Very fun to go wander the shelves when I want a physical book.

Combination of my local second-hand bookstore (which has a wildly good selection given that I live in a small country town), my two favourite "regular" bookstores, Libby, and the Kobo ebook store.

If I can't find something particularly niche or out of print, I'll use Abe Books but I try to avoid that since it's owned by Amazon.

Edit: I've started to favour print books most of the time, at least for poetry and non-fiction. I've started to write more again and I find physical books much easier to refer back to.

I just use my local library now. I don't usually read a book twice, so I don't see any point in purchasing books anymore.

I usually use Libby for most of my books, unless I'm in the middle of a series and have to have the book now.

I don't read a ton of physical books. I kind of like getting physical books as "collectors items", if I really like a book I'll try to find a nice hard cover copy of it.

I'm print disabled, which means I have problems reading printed text, but am not blind. Mainly, I have to be doing something with my hands or it's really hard to focus long enough to read a book. So I get through a lot of audiobooks.

In addition to Audible and Libby, I am also eligible for the National Library Service, which has its own app. If you, or anyone you know might qualify, here's a link to the US NLS. There are similar libraries in most other countries, and there are treaties to make books available to people living abroad in their own language.

I buy books only when I really love the edition. Otherwise, I'll buy some on kindle and rent others through my local library, or Libby. I only buy physical copies of books I am happy to re-read.

I usually buy ebooks from ebooks.com and DeDRM them with calibre and read them on my iPad. Pirated a handful of books but I can’t always find what I’m looking for. :(

I also use my partners Audible account to listen to books at work lol

Either Library Genesis for ebooks, or thriftbooks.com. Also some local used book stores, like Half Price Books (not sure if they are everywhere?)

Thrift Books is nice because you can choose the edition you want, if they have it available. Also you might get nice surprises occationally. I ordered Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons and ended up getting an autographed copy. You can also earn credits for free books, and it's free shipping on orders over $25(?), so I usually order 4-5 at a time. (Not an ad, I just really like thriftbooks lol)

I use the Libby app and check out ebooks from my local library usually. I have a bunch of physical books as well, but I am out of room to put them now. I also find ebooks to be more convenient. I can read whenever I want because I have all the books I'm reading on my phone.

I have some great used bookstores near me that I can browse on a lunch break and have established a decent relationship with the store owners. I love to have a physical book and the interactions with a store owner that lives and breathes books can't be overrated, they always have a suggestion for me based on current interests.

I do own an e-reader though and will occasionally buy books that I just can't get in print, I've been really into the Warhammer 40k universe lately and while I could find them used on ebay they are generally pretty pricey. I did score two collections at my local thrift store last week though for $3 a piece and was pretty happy about that.

I mostly read on royalroad an scribblehub (if you consider web serials to be books)

I read a mix of ebooks and physical books. Usually the choice is determined by the type of book. For example, usually more genre fiction gets an ebook, whereas more so called "literary fiction" gets a physical copy.

For example I've picked up House of Leaves at a local independent bookstore, along with the Molloy books by Beckett and the Norton Annotated Moby Dick. I don't think house of leaves would work at all as an ebook and heavily annotated items I prefer a physical copy.

Alas I am running out of bookshelf space so I have to be much more selective these days. As for finding books, it's usually word of mouth or on storygraph. I also follow the book youtube Leaf by Leaf whom I can thoroughly recommend.

The ebooks I prefer on eink devices, for portability I have a Kobo and for notetaking or needing a bigger screen I have a supernote A5X

Anyway that is convenient. Used book stores, new book stores, libraries, Costco, dollar shops, eBay and whatever other webstores, yard sales, online archives, open hard drives, random websites, humble bundle and friends, itch.io...

For ebooks I have a couple of Kindles I load using Calibre, PDFs I use whatever, but they are best on my iPad Pro using Yomu. On Android they all seem to suck, but I haven't tried any outside of F-Droid.

I used to use Scribr, but I found the selection to be severely lacking. I guess it is good if you want a steady stream of best sellers, a meaningless accolade, or junky weird ass titles that no one should waste their time reading. I suppose their magazine access is super nifty, just the articles and no ads. It is relatively cheap, cheaper as a student I believe, and it comes with perks like Pandora premium and Mubi. It is worth it, but in the end their formatting is just the worst. Reading an ebook on a tablet is the worst of both worlds. Still, I think it is a service worth paying for just for the sheer amount of stuff, not to mention the user submitted stuff that is a gold mine.

The best book subsciption I ever had was Safari Books, which I think is now just O'Reilly. When I used to want to be a programmer, it was the best thing in the world. I even scored a pretty good deal at $200 a year. My dumbass didn't renew one year, and now it is stupidly expensive.

My local thrift store! I usually find at least one good book 50% of the time, and sometimes I’ll find 3 or 4 that are on my to read list. They’re never about $3-$4 each too, which is great.

I mostly buy paper books in person from Pegasus, usually 2 books a month. My wife instead orders in huge stop and start spurts from Amazon. My kids mostly borrow from their school libraries and public library, and they are much more likely to use a kindle than we are.

Ebooks on moaan inkpalm, which is a small cellphone sized e reader. I've used kindles and nooks, and I prefer the smaller form factor, because it's easier to always have with me. I don't have as much free time as I used to, and being able to read when the opportunity arises really helps me read more. I also listen to audiobooks. I have a problem with keeping books, and eventually it's just too much, so as much as I like physical books I don't buy many anymore.

When I was still in school, I used to buy physical books and magazines from local bookstores.

Nowadays, I buy e-books, mostly from Humble Bundle.

I only read physical books, but i also try to buy only used ones. Worked actually pretty good for the past 10-15 years and still works for me

I read primarily ebooks that I download to my kobo ereader. Eink ereaders are so nice and made me read a lot more.

I buy (used) physical books for every book I read, other than humble bundles (typically for programming e-book bundles). I put a lot of my income toward books though, which is maybe not advisable, but I simply love having a ton of books in my home

I typically buy used books on ebay when I want something specific (often technical books), but for fiction I often browse one of the used bookstores around me, or grab a random book from one of those little library book-boxes-on-a-stick. I like to follow the whimsical approach of reading books that come to me

Yes to all of that :) I just realised exactly how eclectic my reading habits are - lately I've been visiting the local library once or twice a week, plus I have a kobo subscription that has introduced me to a heap of indie authors I never would have discovered otherwise, plus I have a wall of books which are mostly used/secondhand except for a handful of absolute favourites.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks in my car, which got me back into the reading-for-pleasure habit after a dry spell during and after grad school. I have a subscription to libro.fm, the source of most of my audiobooks.

When not in my car I borrow a lot of ebooks from libby, or hoopla if the book’s not on libby. I also sometimes borrow audiobooks. I haven’t borrowed a physical book from the library since COVID.

Less often, I buy books from Powells, but my physical book collection is so big, I usually only buy older books that aren’t available from other sources.

I have a wealth of sources for book recommendations to find new books. Powells, who have staff recommendations every month, New York Times, librarything, a gazillion places on the web…

I buy my books from either ebooks or Amazon, then load them on my kindle which I carry everywhere. It's an old paper white that usually fits into the pocket of whatever jacket I'm wearing.

I like physical books too but I really don't have the space to be stacking up. I also read a lot in public and don't like for people to always know what I'm reading lol. Nothing sketch, I'm just a private person.

I usually check them out from my library through Libby or on my Kobo reader. I just read e-books these days because my library is a bit far away and not open very often. When I lived in a bigger city, I liked to wander around the library and pick out things that caught my eye on the shelves.

I have two apps for borrowing books, one for Finnish and one for English books (Ellibs and Libby). Weirdly the Finnish one sucks balls and literally has like 100 fantasy books in total. I don't read a ton but I do take a gander at stuff to borrow on occasion. I can sync the borrowed books with my Kobo e-reader which is nice. Then I also use the Kobo store to buy books, but my god their app is terrible. Bad enough that I groan when I need to browse books in there. I don't really read physical books but it has been tempting to start browsing libraries as I have two within walking distance. Perhaps during summer.

Haven't really found a good place to find new books. It is mostly though reddit. I know people use Goodreads but eh, for some reason it does not appeal to me that much.