| Ail said: While we're speaking of reading. Who here has moved to e-books ?
I have been a hard core book collectors for years with close to 1500 scifi/fantasy books in my collection and then I got a kindle 10 months ago. Since then I haven't purchased a single paper book and I am actually reading a lot again ( purchased and read 35 e-books or so in 10 months while I was down to reading 8-9 books a year before that). The thing that really rocks with the kindle is the spur of the moment purchase. I used to buy books as they were released, especially in case of series as I never knew if I would be able to find them later on. And when i wanted to read a new book I would look at my backlog and have to decide what to read next. Now when I finish a book I can get and start reading any book I want within 60 seconds, so I get to read what i feel like reading at that time, not what I purchased 2 years earlier........ One thing I had never done before (except for LOTR) is that e-books are cheap enough that I find myself repurchasing old books I had and rereading them again.... I LOVE MY KINDLE !!! |
I've debated getting one of those. For stuff where the mass market paperback has released, the kindle price seems to be about the same as the mass market price, but I have a backlog of books still, so it'd be a while before I'd buy one.
Edit: The only problem I have with it is I really love looking at a book collection/series on the shelf, even if there are only 20 books, I'd rather see that then see somebody just have 20 wireless copies.
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