I have a horrible feeling that this will get confusing as hell - I read the previous seven books one right after another and then started reading along with the chapters being posted on Patreon for a bit before deciding to wait until the whole book was out.

Only now I just read Sam's recap of book 7 at the beginning of this one and who the fuck are all those people?! Why don't I remember like half of them? Do I reread the entire series or just hope there's enough context clues to trigger some memories where necessary?

I can’t understand a single thing Joseph is trying to say

I do love how the countries and city states in this world have different names for the small magic users - miracle workers, majika, etc. it makes the world rich and believable.  I do love how the city of the Duchess is briefly mentioned in passing in other books and here we get to see it as a place where things happen (weird and whimsical things) Imagine Clara or Isvan's pragmatic response to Nag and Molly.

Do you prefer reading print books or digital versions? Paperback or hardcover? Ereader/eink display or laptop/phone/whatever? Why?

I'm wondering because I kind of want to prefer reading print books, and for the most part I do unless on the go, but today is one of those days where I struggle with print but can easily read digital. Why? Who knows!

Can be a bunch of different reasons, from "the book is unwieldy and heavy" or "I don't like the feeling of the pages" to "the typeface is annoying and it's dark and non of the lights I have are compatible with the position I want to read in". Today it's partially because I have a cold and have lost my place in my book multiple times because I had to sneeze and accidentally closed the book. Fun!

Now I'm considering buying the digital versions of my print current reads but at the same time really don't want to because I hate annotating ebooks (I'm using a German ereader brand and highlighting things/annotating them is an absolute mess, especially on my older ereader model) and I was looking forward to marking up all the fun passages.

So, instead of reading anything, print or digital, I'm now procrastinating and was wondering: Which do you prefer and why? Do you switch between them? Or do you prefer listening to audiobooks (which I can only do in the car or while exercising/otherwise occupied or I will get distracted and miss whole chapters)?