I had been staunchly avoinding all information about anything to do with ebooks. I loved my pbooks. LOOOOOOVVVED them.
Then my husband came home this past November with a birthday present for me-- a sony prs-505. My first reaction was to want to scream... I never asked for this, when he had mentioned it at times before, I said NOT INTERESTED. I don't buy books! I use the library.
Well, a few books later, and I was hooked. Throw in the local library with its own collection of ebooks and I was thrilled (thanks to mobileread for helping me find that!). Add in slowly realizing how to get other free books online (again, thanks mobileread!) and I was a very happy camper.
The librarians at my local library have gone from seeing me at least twice a week checking out a huge stack of books each time to seeing me once or twice a month checking out a few books for the kids, and an occasional one for me.
I found mobileread by searching random topics for help having to do with the reader.... and lurked for a bit, gathering info, before officially signing on to do business. I still don't understand half the "tech" stuff posted here, but, slowly, oh so slowly, I am learning one piece of info at a time. I'm quite impressed with myself
