Not a fan of digital calipers. [...]
It is funny, but woodworkers I know seem to fall on one side or the other. My spouse used to work for a company that manufactured door locks, with micron-level precision. When I married her, her dowry included a tool chest full of high precision measuring tools - calipers, micrometers, feeler gauges, radius gauges, etc. That was a long time ago.
My spouse and I often work together in the "shop" on our own respective woodworking projects, helping each other as needed. She ALWAYS reaches for the dial caliper, and won't use the digital one. I don't blame her - she used it her entire career.
I always reach for the digital caliper, which works so well for me - I like the instant read, the quick conversion between inch fractions, decimal inches, and metric, and its precision. The drawback of the digital calipers is that the fractions read to the nearest 1/128th inch - you can't set it up to round to the nearest 1/32, for example. I made a visual reference table for fractions, see below.
The selection of dial vs. digital caliper is a very personal and individual choice, apparently.
Digital Caliper Fraction Table
In case it helps someone, I made a special visual aid table for fractions. I keep it posted inside a cabinet door in my shop for easy reference. Not everyone seems to like it, but it works so well for me in conjunction with the digital calipers. What it does is let me see "nearby", more "round" fractions. (No arguments about how dial calipers work better in this use, okay?)
Example Uses:
* If you look at 79/128 on the right hand table, you will see that it is only 1/128 away from 5/8, which may be the "rounded fraction" that you you wanted.
* If you look at 85/128 on the right hand table, you will see that it is not close to any "rounded" fraction. The closest fractions are 21/32 and 43/64. The closest "rounded" fractions might be 11/16 or 5/8, but they are not that close.
If this PDF chart works for you, great! If it doesn't, please ignore it.