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While living in the U.S.A.:
As a collector of First Editions, I would buy new First Edition literary novels every month, spending slightly more than $100 a month on these new releases and also experimenting on some newer writers reiviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
There was also Half-Price Books in about four prime locations in Cincinnati, Ohio area. Occassionally, the clerks would overlook a collectible of an author whom I collect, and thus I would spend about $30 additional a month from them.
At that time, I had just bought my PRS-500 a few months after it came out, and I also began purchasing books from Sony. (I had yet to "trust" Ficionwise.)
Moving to Peru:
Now that I've moved to Peru - and this was January, 2008 - I buy only ebooks. On the few trips back to the U.S., I was able to pick up some hardback editions of authors I collect and brought some of those books back with me.
Of the close to 2,000 books in my collection, all but about 20 of them are in a climate-controlled storage in the U.S.A. Those 20 hardbacks are here in Peru with me.
So, for the past 9 months (with the exceptions noted above), I've only bought ebooks for my (now) PRS-505, having sold both my PRS-500s. I've also set up an account with Fictionwise and they're now my main source for purchases - mainly pulpish, Sci-Fi, Horror fiction, what for me I term as easily disposable genre fiction.
For my literature reading, I still frequent Sony. I'm currently reading one of my favorite writers Richard Russo (NOT the Sci-Fi genre writer), having recently purchased "Bridge of Sighs," which is excellent.
I probably spend about $50-$60 USD a month on my ebook reading habit, with no book purchases yet from Peru.
Don
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