A lot of people nowadays read books on devices. Kindles, phones, computers… there are plenty of electronic methods of reading a book.
Personally, I prefer hard copies of books. I like being able to flip the pages back and forth. I like how a book feels in my hands. And words on a paper page don’t mess with my eyes the way words on an electronic screen do. (I’ve tried every possible setting on my computer and my Kindle. Nothing helps.)
Because I personally prefer hard copies, I make all of my books available as paperbacks in addition to ebooks. This, however, means that I have WAY too many copies of my books lying around, because when I change the cover on a book, I still have copies with the old cover but I want copies with the new one.
I recently took over an entire bookcase that technically belongs to my kid (who lives here and made the mistake of putting the bookcase next to my work area). All of the books on the top shelf are ones I’ve self-published over the past three years, including the two hetero romances I did before I decided it was probably better to stick with male/male. The second self is all of my young adult books, written under the name Jo Ramsey. Most of those were published by publishers, but there is also a 5-book midgrade fiction series published under my legal name. And there are a couple of YA anthologies that have a story of mine in them.
The bottom shelf is all of the hard copies of my Karenna Colcroft books that were published as hard copies pre-2016 (except for the hard copies of the original Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat books, which I no longer have), along with a few anthologies that contain stories by me. There are also a few nonfiction books I self-published between 2020 and 2022, and a phonics-based reading instruction program I wrote and developed when I taught special education around the turn of the century. (Good grief, that makes me feel old…)
Basically, the entire bookcase is either books I wrote or anthologies that contain stories I wrote. I like looking at them. Which is why I do paperbacks of all of my books.