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Which paper books would you like to have as ebooks.
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool. There's an audiobook version but I can't find it as an ebook.
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Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle books.
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Even iff I'd *only* read classics on my ereader and nothing else, I will have saved huge amounts of money. I save even more by buying books from BooksOnBoard and other non-Dutch sites; there, I can get some books for under €4, while the ebook or paper version would cost me €9-12 in the Netherlands. In the end, the only thing I worry about is future readability or usability, but this is the problem with almost all digital formats. IMHO, un-DRM-ed EPUB is the safest format to have your books in, at this point in time, as it is just plain HTML/CSS with some small additions, so it can be relatively easily converted. In the end, I'd like to have all my paper books as ebooks, and apart from some (very) obscure ones, such as Dutch versions of English and German works of which I don't know the original title (as it's not in the book), I'm quite a ways along to making this happen Quote:
Still, I'm thinking of creating some sort of "über-collection", just because I like paper books: getting hardcover versions of books I REALLY like, just to have a book case. I did the same with DVD's: I've started to split up my DVD's into Oscar-winning stuff and getting special editions of that, where possible, and DVD's I just liked well enough; and the stuff I don't like (anymore) is being sold. For books, it would be hardcover versions of the stuff I really like, ebooks for the rest that is OK to good, and I'd sell of the rest of the paperbacks I don't like (anymore). Ebooks quite saved me from crashing my second floor down to the first at some point in time... To be honest, I'm still a bit torn between books and ebooks. I love paper books (even the heavy ones), but when an ebook is made up well, the custom fonts and fontsizes, ereader frontlight, lesser weight, smaller size, savings on free books in the PD, in short... the convenience, is what makes me to finally choose the ereader for day to day reading. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-02-2013 at 08:29 PM. |
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Jane Dentinger's Jocelyn O'Roarke novels would be at the top of my list.
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OK, of the physical books that I own:
Graham Greene - Power and the Glory and others Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana William Horwood - Skallagrigg and Callanish John Knowles - A Separate Peace Alan Garner - Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath & Boneland Meredith Ann Pierce - The Darkangel & A Gathering of Gargoyles. The situation is so much better than when last I checked, but there's still some key books that I'm looking for. |
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The Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. I went to buy them in January only to discover that they're not in ebook yet.
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To me, it is the other way around
I normally don't re-read, especially fiction. But the ones that are really, really good, I would like to have as hardcover paper books. So far, the likes of:
I think I will buy The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo and A Tale of Two Cities in hardcover one day. I find that while I like reading new fiction, it doesn't leave me awestruck like the classics do. |
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After thinking about this some more, I think I'd rather reverse the question.
Probably, I'll end up reading all the "regular" stuff (like fantasy series and such) as ebooks, mainly to save some money, and a huge amount of space, while I'll try to get the truly epic stuff as hardcover books. I've been thinking to split my DVD collection, into "Oscar winners" and "Stuff I like", and sell off the rest, which is mostly mediocre material. Then I'll only buy Oscar material and movies I really like (independent of Oscars), and watch the rest on TV or cheap rentals. |
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Tigana, The Left Hand of Darkness, all of Graham Greene's novels and Boneland by Alan Garner (but not the other two unfortunately). I'm so conditioned into thinking Australia will get everything last that I rarely bother checking there for ebooks I'm not finding in the US. So that leaves only the following: Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird William Horwood - Skallagrigg and Callanish John Knowles - A Separate Peace Alan Garner - Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath Meredith Ann Pierce - The Darkangel & A Gathering of Gargoyles |
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