Ill read whatever its on, but carying thousands of books and pdfs on somting the size and less weight than a book than why not. The quality is the same.
Sure, to some people.
It's like going out to an expensive meal at a fine restaurant. You could have the food in a beautiful classy environment with wonderful service.
Or you could have the very same food while being served in a narrow, dirty, porcelain hallway near the washrooms, with crappy service. "The food quality is the same" but for most of us the eating experience is not the same.
Or one could say "I could have cooked a steak at home" and some people think if that's the case, then going out to eat is a waste. But some people find the "going out to eat" - the taking the break from cooking, having it cooked for you, and just getting out of the house, to be part of what they look forward to (that's me; I have friends who love to stay in and cook, I love nothing more than going out to great restaurants).
To some going out is a hassle. To others, part of the charm. To some all the stuff involved with vinyl is a needless hassle. To others, it's part of th attraction.
A book allows me to unplug from the world. I far prefer the feel of a book in my hands, and the feel for my eyes, and just not looking at another f*cking screen for that time. YMMV of course!
Same for vinyl.
I If romanticizing about inferior fuctionality is your thing go for it. Im in it for the music as accurate as i can get it, so Ill stick to CD.
Again, it's only "inferior functionality" depending on the function you are looking for. You have a personal goal of, I guess, having a more technically
accurate source with faster access to more music. I have that too. But I find when I use it I often tend to start treating music as more background and a disposable experience, and I have a harder time settling down and listening to music without having that twitch-inducing iphone thing of "surf, surf, surf" through all the music.
I wanted something to function as a different experience, a richer physical experience, and one that would provoke me to settle better and focus on relaxing and listening to the music, whole albums etc. Vinyl fulfills that function for my music listening than digital (at least, it often does).
It doesn't fulfill your function, sure. But it's only "inferior" for your interests, it's not automatically "superior" in some way to someone else's.
(Just as for me a motorcycle is an utterly inferior mode of transportation, given I prefer comfort, safety, and a vehicle that can shielf me from the elements all year round. But my friend is a motorcycle enthusiast and a car just doesn't offer the function he gets out of a motorcycle. And I get that. I'm not going to downplay his version of the vehicle hobby as "inferior." I get it, even if I don't share the interest.
Cheers.