I’ll also put a vote in the box for starting your electronic log immediately and continuing to also keep paper logs through training. When I finally decided to make the plunge to an electronic logbook I had about 15 years of flying to transfer. It was mind numbing and finger cramping. The earlier you make the transfer the better. You don’t have too much flying to transfer to electronic, so it won’t be to bad. But, pro tip: As you go through the entry process stop at the end of each logbook page and verify that the totals in your electronic logbook transfers equal the totals in your paper log. The only thing that is worse than doing the transfer itself is getting about two years of flying transferred and realize that your totals are off by four tenths of an hour. The game of “find the error(s)” is a PIA.

As others have said. Once you’re finished with training and have a job you can choose to stop logging in the paper log if you wish. Just keep it for the signatures and endorsements. I also copied all my endorsements and have them all in the back of my printed and bound electronic log. Personally, I still keep both electronic AND paper logs. Airline flying is leg by leg in my electronic log and then I log all the totals of airline flying for the month on a single line of my paper log. Each flight of GA flying still gets its own line in both my electronic and paper log. So, lots of redundancy for me, but I’m weird.